Find out the size of a directory in linux

Sometimes you might want to find out what is eating all space in a certain drive.

One way is to do a find for files larger than a specific size:

find {/path/to/directory/} -type f -size +{size-in-kb}k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

Search or find big files Linux (50MB) in current directory, enter:

$ find . -type f -size +50000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

Search in my /var/log directory:

# find /var/log -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

find {/path/to/directory} -type f -size +{file-size-in-kb}k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'

Search in current directory:

$ find . -type f -size +10000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'

But my favorite one is just do a du..

du -h --max-depth=1