Get Size of All Folders in Directory

Question

I want to get the size of all directories within a specific directory. I was thinking something like

find . -type d -exec du -sh {} \;

But that returns all directories recursively. How can I limit the depth?

Answer 1

Add -maxdepth 1 to your find parameters.

Answer 2

Why use find at all and not simply glob for directories?

du -shc */

Answer 3

This one should do the job efficiently :

du -hc --max-depth=1

One big difference I think of is that, when encountering hardlinked files, they will be counted only once. In a find loop, they will be counted once per base directory. [Is it correct english?]

Answer 4

You can use the -maxdepth option.

Answer 5

I'm using this one,

ls | xargs du -sh 

basically there are many ways to skin a cat :)

Answer 6

You can also do this:

du -ah .

What it does is to take the subdirectories of the current directory, find its individual's size and in the end, it prints the total size.