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du is a unix command to measure disk usage

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Why does "find . -name *.txt | xargs du -hc" give multiple totals?

I have a large set of directories for which I'm trying to calculate the sum total size of several hundred .txt files. I tried this, which mostly works: find . -name *.txt | xargs du -hc But instead of giving me one total at the end, I get several.…
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How to monitor the size of a directory via Telegraf

We need to monitor the size of a directory (for example the data directory of InfluxDB) to set up alerts in Grafana. As mentioned here: How to configure telegraf to send a folder-size to influxDB , there is no built-in plugin for this. We don't mind…
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Size() vs ls -la vs du -h which one is correct size?

I was compiling a custom kernel, and I wanted to test the size of the image file. These are the results: ls -la | grep vmlinux -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8167158 May 21 12:14 vmlinux du -h vmlinux 3.8M vmlinux size vmlinux text data …
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Why is du command showing double size when h flag is sent?

I want to check the total size of a git repository. Is funny that du is giving me two different kind of sizes when the -h flag is sent. It is actually giving double size. Why is this? What is the correct size? MyMac:~/repositories/my-repo.git…
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Why du or echo pipelining is not working?

I'm trying to use du command for every directory in the current one. So I'm trying to use code like this: ls | du -sb But its not working as expected. It outputs only size of current '.' directory and thats all. The same thing is with echo ls |…
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Fast(er) way to get folder size with batch script

PLEASE SEE BELOW THE ORIGINAL QUESTION FOR SOME TEST COMPARISONS OF DIFFERENT WAYS: So I tried 2 ways so far: 1.Iterate through directory using the code from Get Folder Size from Windows Command Line : @echo off set size=0 for /r %%x in (folder\*)…
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Directory Stats command line interface?

Windirstat/ Kdirstat/ Disk Inventory X has been nothing short of revolutionary in file managment. Why is there no text-only command line equivalent? I'd need it for SSH administration of my file servers. We have all the building blocks: du, tree…
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Using BASH, how would one use "du -ch" to output only the total collective size?

I'm trying to run du -ch on multiple directories, but I only apart it only shows the total size of all files (I don't want each individual file, then the total at the end which is what -cdoes).
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How to gather disk usage on a storage system faster than just using "du"?

I operates a Synology NAS device and the unit includes that over 600 users data. The users backup data are tax accounting data. So, approximately one user's folder has 200,000 files. I have to provide their backup data usage informations to each…
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Diffrence between real and showed by docker system df disc usage

I have docker in version 18.03.1-ce that support command docker system df. His output: Images space usage: REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED ago SIZE SHARED SIZE …
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du -skh * in / returns vastly different size from df on centos 5.5

I have a vps slice running centos 5.5 I am supposed to have 15 gigs of disk space, but according to df it seems to double my disk space usage. when I run du -skh * in / as root i get: [root@yardvps1 /]# du -skh * 0 aquota.group 0 …
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How does du calculate the size of a file in kilobytes?

I have a file for which du -b filename gives 67108864 as the answer (which is supposed to be in bytes), while du filename gives 65604 (which is supposed to be in kilobytes). However, it should return 67108864/1024 = 65536 as the answer. I looked at…
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Show DU outcome in purely megabytes

I am using DU function to output the directory size to a file and then move it to an excel file to add the total. Is it possible to output the size of a directory only in MB (even if the size is in KB or GB): e.g. if the file size is 50kb the output…
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How do I use the -I option of du to ignore all files of a given type?

Hello I am running OS X. I am trying to use du and the -I option to ignore all files of a given type. I am resorting to -I because OS X du doesnt include the "exclude" option. Essentially I am trying to find the OS X equivalent to this command: du…
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formatting du -sh output

I would like to customize the output from: du -hs * E.g output: 23G Test1 1.2M Folder With Spaces 12G Another Folder With Spaces The problem is that I can capture the first column but since the second column may contain spaces the output…
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