Linux du
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du or Disk Usage is a tool used to find the amount of space used up. This is useful when trying to clean up space or just see what is taking up a lot.
The below command will show all the folders and how much space they use up.
du -k ./*
The below command will show all the folders that have space greater than 500000 bytes.
du -k ./* | awk '$1 > 500000'
The below command will show all the folder that have space greater then 500000 bytes and ordered.
du -k ./* | awk '$1 > 500000' | sort -nr
