{"id":817,"date":"2024-05-10T18:02:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T18:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2024-05-13T13:42:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T13:42:51","slug":"useful-du-commands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Useful du commands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The du command is very useful when you are looking at disk space usage. Here are some of the most commonly used parameters:<br \/><br \/><strong>-h human-readable<\/strong> Displays sizes in human-readable format, using units such as KB, MB, GB, etc<br \/><strong>-a, &#8211;all<\/strong> Lists all files with their sizes (combine with h to get the best result)<br \/><strong>-d, \u2013max-depth=N<\/strong><br \/><strong>&#8211;time<\/strong> Lists all files with their sizes and the timestamp of its last modification<br \/><strong>-X, &#8211;exclude=&lt;pattern><\/strong> Lists all files except those that match &lt;pattern><br \/><br \/>To find the disk usage of all files in the directory except the tarred files:<br \/><br \/><code>du -ah --exclude=\".tgz\" --exclude=\".tar.gz\"<\/code><br \/><br \/>To find the 10 largest files in the current directory ordered by file size:<br \/>(This gets both directories and files by size)<br \/><code>for i in G M K; do du -ah | grep [0-9]$i | sort -nr -k 1; done | head -n 11<\/code><br \/>or<br \/><code>du -ah . | sort -n -r | head -n 10<\/code><br \/><br \/>(This gets only files ordered by size)<br \/><code>du -hsx * | sort -rh | head -10<\/code><br \/>or<br \/><code>du -ah --max-depth=1 | sort -h<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The du command is very useful when you are looking at disk space usage. Here are some of the most commonly used parameters: -h human-readable Displays sizes in human-readable format, using units such as KB, MB, GB, etc-a, &#8211;all Lists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/?p=817\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}