How to list disk usage in Linux shell

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Chris Backhouse

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    • A very simple technique to list disk usage by top level directory in the linux shell:-

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    du -sh `find -maxdepth 1`

    Note the back single quote which you normally find top left of your keyboard.

    And you can change the maxdepth as required ..