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# Show Disk Usage For The Current Directory
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The `du` utility can be used to show disk usage for a particular directory
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or set of directories. When used without any arguments, it will show the
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disk usage for the current directory.
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```bash
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$ du
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80 ./.git/hooks
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8 ./.git/info
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256 ./.git/logs/refs/heads
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...
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```
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with the `-h` command we can see it all in a human-readable format
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```bash
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$ du -h
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40K ./.git/hooks
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4.0K ./.git/info
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128K ./.git/logs/refs/heads
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```
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and to get an even clearer picture we can pipe that through `sort -nr`
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```bash
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$ du -h | sort -nr
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412K ./vim
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352K ./postgres
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340K ./.git/logs
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216K ./.git/logs/refs
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184K ./ruby
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156K ./unix
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148K ./git
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...
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```
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This sorts it numerically in reverse order putting the largest stuff at the
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top.
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