Files / Directories listings

January 3, 2010 - 2:06am — Xuan Ngo

List files by sizes

ls -Srsh *.txt
# -S Sort by size
# -r  Reverse order while sorting
# -s Show size
# -h Show sizes in human readable format

List directories only

ls -d */
# or
ls -l | grep '^d'
# or
ls -p |grep "/"

Show size of all directories under the current directory

du -c | sed -n '/^.*\.\/.*\/.*/!p'
du -h --max-depth=1

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