Display the size of file and directory in Linux using DU command

The du command below show the files size in the current directory in MB or K.

[root@linux_1]# du –h

 

Get the total size of current directory

[root@linux_1]# du –s

[root@linux_1]# du –sh

(-s = summarize and -h = human readable format)

 

To get the size of file and directory in current directory

[root@linux_1]# du -sh *

 

Display the size of specific file extension

[root@linux_1]# du -ch *.txt

 

To produce grand total of the directory size

[root@fedora home]# du -csh *