Name
du
Synopsis
du [options
] [directories
]
Print disk usage (as the number of 1KB blocks used by each named directory and its subdirectories; default is the current directory).
Options
- -a, --all
Print disk usage for all files, not just subdirectories.
- -b, --bytes
Print sizes in bytes.
- -c, --total
In addition to normal output, print grand total of all arguments.
- -D, --dereference-args
Follow symbolic links, but only if they are command-line arguments.
- -h, --human-readable
Print sizes in human-readable format.
- -H, --si
Like -h, but show as power of 1000 rather than 1024.
- -k, --kilobytes
Print sizes in kilobytes (this is the default).
- -l, --count-links
Count the size of all files, whether or not they have already appeared (i.e., via a hard link).
- -L, --dereference
Follow symbolic links.
- --exclude= pattern
Exclude files that match pattern.
- --max-depth= num
Report sizes for directories only down to num levels below the starting point (which is level 0).
- -m, --megabytes
Print sizes in megabytes.
- -s, --summarize
Print only the grand total for each named directory.
- -S, --separate-dirs
Do not include the sizes of subdirectories when totaling the size of parent directories.
- -x, --one-file-system
Display usage of files in current filesystem only.
- -X, --exclude-from= file
Exclude files that match any pattern in file.
- --help
Print help message and then exit.
- --version
Print the version and then exit.
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