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Disk usage: estimate and summarize file and directory space usage. More information: https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/du.1.html.

• List the sizes of a directory and any subdirectories, in the given unit (KiB/MiB/GiB):

du -k|m|g path/to/directory

• List the sizes of a directory and any subdirectories, in human-readable form (i.e. auto-selecting the appropriate unit for each size):

du -h path/to/directory

• Show the size of a single directory, in human-readable units:

du -sh path/to/directory

• List the human-readable sizes of a directory and of all the files and directories within it:

du -ah path/to/directory

• List the human-readable sizes of a directory and any subdirectories, up to N levels deep:

du -h -d 2 path/to/directory

• List the human-readable size of all .jpg files in subdirectories of the current directory, and show a cumulative total at the end:

du -ch /.jpg