If your disk is almost full and you want to track down where the disk space is going, i.e., which files or folders are occupying the most or maximum amount of space then you can start with using the du (disk usage) utility to which you’ll have to pass a couple of options: The different […]

TL;DR: To sort du command’s output in ascending order of the file and/or directory sizes, we can pipe its output to sort -h. To sort in descending order, pipe it to sort -hr. This should work in most Unix-based or Unix-like operating systems (Linux, BSD, macOS): The du command displays the disk usage statistics (estimated […]