du Command¶
Note
Unless otherwise noted, assume the examples work on GNU coreutils du.
Sort¶
The sort examples check the disk usages of a .git/ directory.
Sort by disk usage in descending order¶
$ du ./.git | sort -nr
Results in something like this:
11348 ./.git
10756 ./.git/objects
10600 ./.git/objects/pack
96 ./.git/logs
92 ./.git/refs
88 ./.git/logs/refs
72 ./.git/refs/remotes
72 ./.git/logs/refs/remotes
68 ./.git/refs/remotes/gl
68 ./.git/logs/refs/remotes/gl
68 ./.git/hooks
12 ./.git/refs/heads
12 ./.git/objects/88
12 ./.git/logs/refs/heads
8 ./.git/objects/fd
8 ./.git/objects/f2
8 ./.git/objects/22
8 ./.git/objects/0d
8 ./.git/info
4 ./.git/refs/tags
4 ./.git/objects/info
4 ./.git/branches
To du -h (--human-readable), sort needs the -h flag introduced in coreutils 7.5.
$ du -h ./.git | sort -rh
Results in something like:
12M ./.git
11M ./.git/objects/pack
11M ./.git/objects
96K ./.git/logs
92K ./.git/refs
88K ./.git/logs/refs
72K ./.git/refs/remotes
72K ./.git/logs/refs/remotes
68K ./.git/refs/remotes/gl
68K ./.git/logs/refs/remotes/gl
68K ./.git/hooks
12K ./.git/refs/heads
12K ./.git/objects/88
12K ./.git/logs/refs/heads
8.0K ./.git/objects/fd
8.0K ./.git/objects/f2
8.0K ./.git/objects/f1
8.0K ./.git/objects/f0
8.0K ./.git/info
4.0K ./.git/refs/tags
4.0K ./.git/objects/info
4.0K ./.git/branches