du -sh

A.k.a "the dush", du -sh prints stats about a directory of folders and files to give you the real size recursively.

It's on my list of top ten most runned commands as I have nam flashbacks to 1971, which trigger my paranoia about disk space.

BTW, I use Alpine, BTW.

bad-c-dev@bad-c-pc:~$ du -sh ~/*
4.0K /home/bad-c-dev/Desktop
4.0K /home/bad-c-dev/Documents
4.0K /home/bad-c-dev/Downloads
4.0K /home/bad-c-dev/Music
4.0K /home/bad-c-dev/Pictures
4.0K /home/bad-c-dev/Public
4.0K /home/bad-c-dev/Templates
4.0K /home/bad-c-dev/Videos

by Bad C dev February 05, 2022