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du(1) |
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du − estimate file space usage
du [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories.
Mandatory
arguments to long options are mandatory for short options
too.
−a, −−all
write counts for all files, not just directories
−B, −−block−size=SIZE use SIZE-byte blocks |
−b, −−bytes
print size in bytes
−c, −−total
produce a grand total
−D, −−dereference−args
dereference FILEs that are symbolic links
−h, −−human−readable
print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)
−H, −−si
likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024
−k |
like −−block−size=1K |
−l, −−count−links
count sizes many times if hard linked
−L, −−dereference
dereference all symbolic links
−S, −−separate−dirs
do not include size of subdirectories
−s, −−summarize
display only a total for each argument
−x, −−one−file−system
skip directories on different filesystems
−X FILE, −−exclude−from=FILE
Exclude files that match any pattern in FILE.
−−exclude=PATTERN Exclude files that match PATTERN. |
−−max−depth=N
print the total for a directory (or file, with −−all) only if it is N or fewer levels below the command line argument; −−max−depth=0 is the same as −−summarize
−−help |
display this help and exit |
−−version
output version information and exit
SIZE may be (or may be an integer optionally followed by) one of following: kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1,000,000, M 1,048,576, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y.
PATTERN is a shell pattern (not a regular expression). The pattern ? matches any one character, whereas * matches any string (composed of zero, one or multiple characters). For example, *.o will match any files whose names end in .o. Therefore, the command
du --exclude=’*.o’
will skip all files and subdirectories ending in .o (including the file .o itself).
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, Larry McVoy, and Paul Eggert.
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright
© 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying
conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
The full documentation for du is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and du programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info du
should give you access to the complete manual.
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