From c03633e460c4c89c9afec041b3a1ee6a2a1a43f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 16:28:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add Show The Disk Usage For The Current Directory as a unix
 til

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 README.md                                     |  3 +-
 ...ow-disk-usage-for-the-current-directory.md | 39 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 unix/show-disk-usage-for-the-current-directory.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2fe4e5a..7cccf0f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ variety of languages and technologies. These are things that don't really
 warrant a full blog post. These are mostly things I learn by pairing with
 smart people at [Hashrocket](http://hashrocket.com/).
 
-_421 TILs and counting..._
+_422 TILs and counting..._
 
 ---
 
@@ -388,6 +388,7 @@ _421 TILs and counting..._
 - [Search History](unix/search-history.md)
 - [Search Man Page Descriptions](unix/search-man-page-descriptions.md)
 - [Securely Remove Files](unix/securely-remove-files.md)
+- [Show Disk Usage For The Current Directory](unix/show-disk-usage-for-the-current-directory.md)
 - [SSH Escape Sequences](unix/ssh-escape-sequences.md)
 - [SSH With Port Forwarding](unix/ssh-with-port-forwarding.md)
 - [Sort In Numerical Order](unix/sort-in-numerical-order.md)
diff --git a/unix/show-disk-usage-for-the-current-directory.md b/unix/show-disk-usage-for-the-current-directory.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fd9b8a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/unix/show-disk-usage-for-the-current-directory.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Show Disk Usage For The Current Directory
+
+The `du` utility can be used to show disk usage for a particular directory
+or set of directories. When used without any arguments, it will show the
+disk usage for the current directory.
+
+```bash
+$ du
+80      ./.git/hooks
+8       ./.git/info
+256     ./.git/logs/refs/heads
+...
+```
+
+with the `-h` command we can see it all in a human-readable format
+
+```bash
+$ du -h
+ 40K    ./.git/hooks
+4.0K    ./.git/info
+128K    ./.git/logs/refs/heads
+```
+
+and to get an even clearer picture we can pipe that through `sort -nr`
+
+```bash
+$ du -h | sort -nr
+412K    ./vim
+352K    ./postgres
+340K    ./.git/logs
+216K    ./.git/logs/refs
+184K    ./ruby
+156K    ./unix
+148K    ./git
+...
+```
+
+This sorts it numerically in reverse order putting the largest stuff at the
+top.