Terminal Commands - sammanthp007/Linux-Kernel-Development GitHub Wiki

Find the size of the directory

The command du "summarizes disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories," e.g.,

du -hs /path/to/directory

-h is to get the numbers "human readable", e.g. get 140M instead of 143260 (size in KBytes)

-s is for summary (otherwise you'll get not only the size of the folder but also for everything in the folder separately)