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Du Command

The du command estimates and displays disk space used by files. It has options to print sizes in human readable format, summarize totals, and exclude certain files or file systems. Examples show using du to report sizes of text files and display a total.

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Du Command

The du command estimates and displays disk space used by files. It has options to print sizes in human readable format, summarize totals, and exclude certain files or file systems. Examples show using du to report sizes of text files and display a total.

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Linux du command

Updated: 04/26/2017 by Computer Hope

• About du
• du syntax
• du examples
• Related commands
• Linux and Unix commands help

About du
du estimates and displays the disk space used by files.

du syntax
du [OPTION]... [FILE]...

du [OPTION]... --files0-from=F

Options
-a, --all Write counts for all files, not just directories.
Print apparent sizes, rather than disk usage; although the apparent size is
--apparent-size usually smaller, it may be larger due to holes in ('sparse') files, internal
fragmentation, and indirect blocks.
Scale sizes by SIZE before printing them. For example, '-BM' prints sizes in
-B, --block-size=SIZE
units of 1,048,576 bytes. (See SIZE format below).
-b, --bytes Equivalent to '--apparent-size --block-size=1'.
-c, --total Display a grand total.
-D, --dereference-
Dereference only symlinks that are listed on the command line.
args
Summarize disk usage of the NUL-terminated file names specified in file F; If
--files0-from=F
F is "-" then read names from standard input.
-H Equivalent to --dereference-args (-D).
-h, --human- Print sizes in human readable format, rounding values and using abbreviations.
readable For example, "1K", "234M", "2G", etc.
--si Like -h, but use powers of 1000, not 1024.
-k Like --block-size=1K.
-l, --count-links Count sizes many times if hard-linked.
-m Like --block-size=1M.
-L, --dereference Dereference all symbolic links.
-P, --no-dereference Don't follow any symbolic links (this is the default).
-0, --null End each output line with 0 byte rather than newline.
-S, --separate-dirs Do not include size of subdirectories.
-s, --summarize Display only a total for each argument.
-x, --one-file-system Skip directories on different file systems.
-X, --exclude-
Exclude files that match any pattern in FILE.
from=FILE
--exclude=PATTERN Exclude files that match PATTERN.
Print the total for a directory (or file, with --all) only if it is N or fewer levels
-d, --max-depth=N below the command line argument; --max-depth=0 is the same as
--summarize.
Show time of the last modification of any file in the directory, or any of its
--time
subdirectories.
Show time as WORD instead of modification time: atime, access, use, ctime
--time=WORD
or status.
Show times using style STYLE: full-iso, long-iso, iso, or +FORMAT.
--time-style=STYLE
(FORMAT is interpreted like the format of 'date'.)
--help Display a help message and exit.
--version Output version information and exit.

SIZE Format
Display values are in units of the first available SIZE from --block-size, and the DU_BLOCK_SIZE,
BLOCK_SIZE and BLOCKSIZE environment variables. Otherwise, units default to 1024 bytes (or
512 if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set).
SIZE is an integer and optional unit (example: 10M is 10*1024*1024). Units are K, M, G, T, P, E, Z,
Y (powers of 1024) or KB, MB, ... (powers of 1000).
du examples
du -s *.txt

Reports the size of each file in the current directory with the extension .txt. Below is an example of the
output:
8 file1.txt
8 file2.txt
10 file3.txt
2 file4.txt
8 file5.txt
8 file6.txt

du -shc *.txt

Display the same data, but in a "human-readable" size format, and display a grand total.
8.0K file1.txt
8.0K file2.txt
10.0K file3.txt
2.0K file4.txt
8.0K file5.txt
8.0K file6.txt
44.0K total

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