Find the disk-space usage of a directory and all it's files

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How to know the size of a directory?

If I run

ls -lh

then any given directory is just shown as 4.0K. How can I can make it consider the files the directory refers to as well?

marking a question as a duplicate without linking to the duplicate is like having sex without an orgasm... — aequalsb, Feb 09 '17 at 14:30

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 04 '10 at 00:58

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Use du -h and all directories and their subdirectories are being aggregated. (The -h makes it human readable as in useful units like MB, GB or KB)

answered Nov 04 '10 at 00:58

tante

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-h does not show the total size of the directories including it's contents – aequalsb Feb 09 '17 at 14:31
Really helpful to add --max-depth=1 to only show disk space on the first level of forlders – kimy82 Dec 09 '21 at 12:37

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