Find the Biggest Folders

The following command shows the top 10 biggest directories in the current tree.

du -hsx * | sort -hr | head -n 10

du is a command that displays the size of files and folders.

The * will give a summary per file and folder in the current directory.

• -h Human readable format
• -s Display a total for each argument
• -x Skip directories on different file system

sort is a command that sorts alphabetically every line pass to it.

• -h compare human readable numbers
• -r reverse order (biggest to smallest)

head is a command that displays the n first lines pass to it.

• -n the number of line to display.