I found the command du
is different on Mac compared with Linux. A little bit of confusion.
Here is a note how to use du
on different OS.
du on Mac
List the size of current directory, the option -h is displaying in human friendly format, the option -s is not recursive to display all sub-directories:
du -hs .
List all the size of sub-directories in current directory:
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -exec du -hs {} \;
If you want to sort according to the size, use pipeline and sort:
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | xargs du -hs | sort -hr
If you want to know which directory cost most disk space, another handy util command line is ncdu
. You could install it via homebrew:
brew install ncdu
# Run in the specific directory
ncdu
The result is like this:
du on Linux
Linux du have the option –max-depth to limit the depth:
du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr
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