Here’s a quick one liner for checking your disk usage your current working directory (cwd):
nice -n 19 du -ks * | sort -rn | awk '{print $1 "KB\t", $1 / 1024 "MB\t", $2 }'
Some sample output looks like:
5459316KB 5331.36MB 2008.11
4960112KB 4843.86MB 2009.06
Some notes:
- Doesn’t check for hidden files/folders.
- The $2 argument prints out the name of the file or folder, but if there’s a space in the name, it’ll only print whatever is before the space in the file.