du-summarizes disk usage

du [–arskod] [name …]

The du command reports the number of 512-byte blocks contained in all files and (recursively) directories within each directory and file specified.

Example A.22. 
1  du --help
2  du -s/desktop
3  du -a

Explanation

  1. Displays arguments and options to du.

  2. Displays a summary of the block usage for all the files in /desktop and its subdirectories.

  3. Displays block usage for each file in this directory and subdirectories.

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