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Use du to list size of top 20 largest folders/files in current directory recursively in bytes and human readable format

How do you sort du output by size?A standard tool to convert a byte-count into human KiB MiB etc; like du, ls1How to list ALL directories according to their size? [without including the parent directory]Unit multiplier conversion in a shell scriptList files, directories and executables in current directoryHow to display “human-readable” file sizes in find results?Listing directories based on size from largest to smallest on single lineHow do I set a file's mtime in epoch format?I accidentally GZIPed a whole bunch of files, one by one, instead of using tar(1). How can I undo this mess?How to zip only files under multiple subdirectories?How to tell the sizes of files and folders, sorted, and in MB, GB, instead of a long integer?List all directories whose contents (files) have not been updated or accessed before a certain date?

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Few things to be achieved
1. Recursively get top 20 largest folders/files
2. Get their sizes in bytes as well as human readable format

shell

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Few things to be achieved
1. Recursively get top 20 largest folders/files
2. Get their sizes in bytes as well as human readable format

shell

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  Possible duplicate of How do you sort du output by size?
  
  – Sparhawk
  1 hour ago
  

  
  
  
  

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Few things to be achieved
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2. Get their sizes in bytes as well as human readable format

shell

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#!/bin/bash

# ------------------------------------------

# Copy paste this content in a bash script e.g. ducks.sh

# And use it directly.

# ------------------------------------------

# Refer:

# https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-find-largest-file-in-directory-recursively-using-find-du/

# https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/220470/353485





function bytesToHR() {

        local SIZE=$1

        local UNITS="B KiB MiB GiB TiB PiB"

        for F in $UNITS; do

                local UNIT=$F

                test ${SIZE%.*} -lt 1024 && break;

                SIZE=$(echo "$SIZE / 1024" | bc -l)

        done



    if [ "$UNIT" == "B" ]; then

        printf "%4.0f    %sn" $SIZE $UNIT

    else

        printf "%7.02f %sn" $SIZE $UNIT

    fi

}



du --block-size=1 --all ./ | sort -rn | head -n 20 > ./dump.txt

ALL_SIZES="`awk '{print $1}' ./dump.txt`"



# echo $ALL_SIZES



rm -f ./new_dump.txt



for s in $ALL_SIZES; do

  bytesToHR $s >> ./new_dump.txt

done



paste ./new_dump.txt ./dump.txt

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#!/bin/bash

# ------------------------------------------

# Copy paste this content in a bash script e.g. ducks.sh

# And use it directly.

# ------------------------------------------

# Refer:

# https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-find-largest-file-in-directory-recursively-using-find-du/

# https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/220470/353485





function bytesToHR() {

        local SIZE=$1

        local UNITS="B KiB MiB GiB TiB PiB"

        for F in $UNITS; do

                local UNIT=$F

                test ${SIZE%.*} -lt 1024 && break;

                SIZE=$(echo "$SIZE / 1024" | bc -l)

        done



    if [ "$UNIT" == "B" ]; then

        printf "%4.0f    %sn" $SIZE $UNIT

    else

        printf "%7.02f %sn" $SIZE $UNIT

    fi

}



du --block-size=1 --all ./ | sort -rn | head -n 20 > ./dump.txt

ALL_SIZES="`awk '{print $1}' ./dump.txt`"



# echo $ALL_SIZES



rm -f ./new_dump.txt



for s in $ALL_SIZES; do

  bytesToHR $s >> ./new_dump.txt

done



paste ./new_dump.txt ./dump.txt

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#!/bin/bash

# ------------------------------------------

# Copy paste this content in a bash script e.g. ducks.sh

# And use it directly.

# ------------------------------------------

# Refer:

# https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-find-largest-file-in-directory-recursively-using-find-du/

# https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/220470/353485





function bytesToHR() {

        local SIZE=$1

        local UNITS="B KiB MiB GiB TiB PiB"

        for F in $UNITS; do

                local UNIT=$F

                test ${SIZE%.*} -lt 1024 && break;

                SIZE=$(echo "$SIZE / 1024" | bc -l)

        done



    if [ "$UNIT" == "B" ]; then

        printf "%4.0f    %sn" $SIZE $UNIT

    else

        printf "%7.02f %sn" $SIZE $UNIT

    fi

}



du --block-size=1 --all ./ | sort -rn | head -n 20 > ./dump.txt

ALL_SIZES="`awk '{print $1}' ./dump.txt`"



# echo $ALL_SIZES



rm -f ./new_dump.txt



for s in $ALL_SIZES; do

  bytesToHR $s >> ./new_dump.txt

done



paste ./new_dump.txt ./dump.txt

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#!/bin/bash

# ------------------------------------------

# Copy paste this content in a bash script e.g. ducks.sh

# And use it directly.

# ------------------------------------------

# Refer:

# https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-find-largest-file-in-directory-recursively-using-find-du/

# https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/220470/353485





function bytesToHR() {

        local SIZE=$1

        local UNITS="B KiB MiB GiB TiB PiB"

        for F in $UNITS; do

                local UNIT=$F

                test ${SIZE%.*} -lt 1024 && break;

                SIZE=$(echo "$SIZE / 1024" | bc -l)

        done



    if [ "$UNIT" == "B" ]; then

        printf "%4.0f    %sn" $SIZE $UNIT

    else

        printf "%7.02f %sn" $SIZE $UNIT

    fi

}



du --block-size=1 --all ./ | sort -rn | head -n 20 > ./dump.txt

ALL_SIZES="`awk '{print $1}' ./dump.txt`"



# echo $ALL_SIZES



rm -f ./new_dump.txt



for s in $ALL_SIZES; do

  bytesToHR $s >> ./new_dump.txt

done



paste ./new_dump.txt ./dump.txt

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#!/bin/bash

# ------------------------------------------

# Copy paste this content in a bash script e.g. ducks.sh

# And use it directly.

# ------------------------------------------

# Refer:

# https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-find-largest-file-in-directory-recursively-using-find-du/

# https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/220470/353485





function bytesToHR() {

        local SIZE=$1

        local UNITS="B KiB MiB GiB TiB PiB"

        for F in $UNITS; do

                local UNIT=$F

                test ${SIZE%.*} -lt 1024 && break;

                SIZE=$(echo "$SIZE / 1024" | bc -l)

        done



    if [ "$UNIT" == "B" ]; then

        printf "%4.0f    %sn" $SIZE $UNIT

    else

        printf "%7.02f %sn" $SIZE $UNIT

    fi

}



du --block-size=1 --all ./ | sort -rn | head -n 20 > ./dump.txt

ALL_SIZES="`awk '{print $1}' ./dump.txt`"



# echo $ALL_SIZES



rm -f ./new_dump.txt



for s in $ALL_SIZES; do

  bytesToHR $s >> ./new_dump.txt

done



paste ./new_dump.txt ./dump.txt

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