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| ====== Ubuntu - Directory - Find largest and smallest directories ====== | ====== Ubuntu - Directory - Find largest and smallest directories ====== | ||
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| + | ===== Find Largest Directories And Files ===== | ||
| To find out the top largest ten directories and files in the current working directory, just run: | To find out the top largest ten directories and files in the current working directory, just run: | ||
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| sudo du /var -a | sort -n -r | head -n 10 | sudo du /var -a | sort -n -r | head -n 10 | ||
| </ | </ | ||
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| + | To display the above results in human-readable format, add “-h” parameter: | ||
| + | |||
| + | <code bash> | ||
| + | sudo du -ah /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10 | ||
| + | </ | ||
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| + | Let us find out the largest files in the current working directory and its sub-directories: | ||
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| + | <code bash> | ||
| + | sudo find -printf '%s %p\n'| sort -nr | head -10 | ||
| + | </ | ||
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| + | You can skip the directories and display only the files by adding “-type f” flag in the above command: | ||
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| + | <code bash> | ||
| + | sudo find -type f -printf '%s %p\n'| sort -nr | head -10 | ||
| + | </ | ||
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| + | To find out the largest files in a specific directory (Ex. /var) and its sub-directories just mention the path of the directory as shown below: | ||
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| + | <code bash> | ||
| + | sudo find /var -printf '%s %p\n'| sort -nr | head -10 | ||
| + | </ | ||
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| + | You have now basic idea about how to find the largest files and directories. | ||
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| + | <code bash> | ||
| + | du -a -h –max-depth=1 | sort -hr | ||
| + | </ | ||
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| + | ---- | ||
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| + | ===== Find Smallest Directories And Files ===== | ||
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| + | To view the top ten smallest directories in the current working directory, run: | ||
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| + | <code bash> | ||
| + | du -S . | sort -n | head -10 | ||
| + | </ | ||
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| + | To view the smallest directories in a specific location, for example /var, run: | ||
| + | |||
| + | <code bash> | ||
| + | sudo du -S /var | sort -n | head -10 | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | |||
| + | To view the top ten smallest files only in the current working directory, run: | ||
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| + | <code bash> | ||
| + | ls -lSr | head -10 | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Likewise, to view the top ten smallest files only in a specific directory, for example /var, just run: | ||
| + | |||
| + | <code bash> | ||
| + | sudo ls -lSr /var | head -10 | ||
| + | </ | ||
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