Highest disk usage of directory in subdirectories

2018-03-12 1 min read bash
I find myself doing this lot of times so thought will share this with you all. Basically, once I want to clear out the directory, I first want to find out the sub-directory using the maximum disk space so I wrote a function for that and here it is: disk_usage_dirs () { find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -name '.' | while read line; do du -s "$line"; done | sort -n | tail -${1:-5} } Some other posts you might find useful on this : Continue reading