How to find disk usage of files/directories with spaces

Question

I know I can get disk usage of the files/directories in a directory like this:

for file in $(ls); do du --hum --sum $file; done

That seems to break down if the files/directories have spaces in their names. So I tried this:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du --hum --sum

That yields only this:

2.3G    .

Whereas there are 8 subdirectories in my directory.

see: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs, https://mywiki.wooledge.org/WordSplitting and Why does my shell script choke on whitespace or other special characters? — ilkkachu, Apr 06 '21 at 23:17
Also, is there something wrong with just du -h -s ./*? Anyway, that find fails because it includes . in the output, and du is smart enough to notice all the other directories are under it. — ilkkachu, Apr 06 '21 at 23:22

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 06 '21 at 23:12

You can also just apply the max-depth directive and take out --sum in your du invocation like so:

du --hum --max-depth=1

It will also display directories with spaces.

Here's example output demonstrating that directories with spaces will show up:

4.0K    ./regular_dir1
4.0K    ./regular_dir2
4.0K    ./dir with spaces

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 06 '21 at 23:28

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Not as good as EWJ00:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -print0 | while read -d $'\0' file; do du --hum --sum "$file"; done

answered Apr 06 '21 at 23:28

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