Help with du command

silver_distro · 11-25-2011, 12:31 AM

I need to find find the memory usage of all the folders individually (and not the files) inside a given folder. How do I do that.
I checked with 'du' command, but could not find any option to suit me requirement.
Please help me out here

jhwilliams · 11-25-2011, 12:46 AM

Try some combination of du and find:

Code:

find . -type d -exec du {} \;

http://linux.die.net/man/1/find
http://linux.die.net/man/1/du

ukiuki · 11-25-2011, 12:48 AM

Try:http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/

and in the terminal

Code:

man du

Regards

silver_distro · 11-25-2011, 01:10 AM

As per my needs...

du --si --max-depth=1
is more helpful than

find . -type d -exec du {} \;

But how do I filter out the folders I do not need.?

I apologize for incorrectly framing the question, I meant that I needed the disk usage of some of the folders within a specific folder. I also need to compare it with total disk space so as to find the available space.

moonshadow · 11-28-2011, 04:18 PM

It sounds to me like it is the -s option for du you want to use. It will summarize the disk usage for the folders without writing out all the files. Depending on your needs you can specify particular folders to check like so

Code:

du -s folder1 folder2

or

Code:

du -s somewhere/*

to get the results for all directories under somewhere/. Feel free to include the --si option too if you don't need exact numbers. It makes it a bit easier on the eye

spiky0011 · 11-28-2011, 04:45 PM

Have you tried

Code:

du -hs *

Code:

du -ch | grep total