Tag: du

How to sort the result of du -h command
To sort the result of “du -h” command, you can use
```
du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -h
```
If you want to list files in current files also, you can use
```
du -ah --max-depth=1 | sort -h
```
If you want to display files in KB, you can use
```
du -k --max-depth=1 | sort -n
```
Back to Disk Usage
August 30, 2022
Find Disk Usage in Linux
du command shows disk usage.
```
du -h --max-depth=1
```
If you want to sort the result, see How to sort the result of du -h command

To see disk usage on the current partition only, run
```
du -hx --max-depth=1
```
To sort by disk space
```
du -k --max-depth=1 | sort -n
```
To display the top 20 largest folders/files
```
du -ahx . | sort -rh | head -20
du -h | sort -hr | head -n  30
```
December 15, 2018