Find big directories using du and (e)grep
Alec Jacobson
March 25, 2010
Here's a simple script I'm using to locate big directories (larger than 1GB):
du -h | grep "^ *[0-9][0-9.]*G"
The output looks like this:
1.1G ./Art/2007
2.5G ./Art/2008/Party Freakz Pasta Party
6.3G ./Art/2008
9.2G ./Art
24G ./Documents/Parallels/Windows 7.pvm/Windows 7-0.hdd
24G ./Documents/Parallels/Windows 7.pvm
24G ./Documents/Parallels
26G ./Documents
2.5G ./Downloads/enstrophy-big-endian
33G ./Downloads
...
100G .
Here's how I find big directories greater than 100MB:
du -h | egrep "^ *([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9.]*M)|([0-9][0-9.]*G)"
To list files, too, just add the -a flag to du like this:
du -ah | grep "^ *[0-9][0-9.]*G"