Show the total size of a folder recursively with du
$ du -sh folder_1/
13 GB folder_1
‘Recursively’ means that du
will compute the size of folder_1
including all other folders that are nested under it, for example folder_2
and folder_3
.
folder_1/
├── folder_2
└── folder_3
The flag -s
tells du
to hide the details and only show the total, in our case 13 GB folder_1
.
For more info, see man du
.
See also https://yctct.com/show-size to show size of files from the command line interface.
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