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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?

Steve Robbins
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Add -maxdepth 1 to your find parameters.

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

du -shc */
Dennis Kaarsemaker
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  • Well, the find option is more cross-platform, with the same command working on GNU/Linux and BSD/MacOSX systems (provided that `-maxdepth 1` is specified before the `-type d` argument). The OSX version of `du` will give a syntax error with `du -shc */`. – platforms Nov 29 '12 at 07:49
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    Fair point, but do note that the poster used linux as a tag, so I was assuming linux in my answer. – Dennis Kaarsemaker Nov 29 '12 at 07:51
  • This one is fine if you don't have hidden directories to include. – Christophe Drevet Nov 30 '12 at 09:08
  • Easily adapted to hidden directories: `du -shc */ .??*/` (The ?? is to exclude . and ..) – Dennis Kaarsemaker Nov 30 '12 at 10:17
  • This actually IS best on Linux, because it allows you to ignore the current working directory, only listing the subdirectories (what the OP specified). Find includes the `.` directory. It also gives you the choice to see the sum total or not. – platforms Dec 03 '12 at 19:38
  • Well, with -mindepth and -maxdepth find can exclude . too :) – Dennis Kaarsemaker Dec 03 '12 at 20:04
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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?]

Christophe Drevet
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You can use the -maxdepth option.

EEAA
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I'm using this one,

ls | xargs du -sh

basically there are many ways to skin a cat :)

quanta
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Danie
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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.

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