9/3/2023 0 Comments Sorting folders by size![]() ![]() See this script as an example (not going to copy it here because I don't believe that approach is worth pursuing, unless PowerShell isn't available and third-party utilities aren't acceptable). I don't think it's possible to do what you want from the regular command line and with only a few simple commands. If you want more flexible formatting of the sizes (choosing kB/MB/GB/etc based on the actual size), see this question and its answers. To format them in some larger unit like MB, try the following (condensed to one line): Get-ChildItem | Where-Object įor more information, see this article at Technet. Measure-Object Length -Sum -ErrorAction Silentl圜ontinue ![]() If PowerShell is OK, then try the following: Get-ChildItem | ![]() For more information, run du without any parameters. Specifically, du -l 1 should show the size of each subdirectory of the current directory. By default, it displays output in descending order (biggest to smallest in size).Try the Disk Usage utility from Sysinternals. To list all files and sort them by size, use the -S option. In the following command the -l flag means long listing and -a tells ls to list all files including (.) or hidden files. Note that when ls invoked without any arguments, it will list the files in the current working directory. To list all files in a directory, open a terminal window and run the following command. ![]() Recommended Read: How to Find Out Top Directories and Files (Disk Space) in Linux select Choose display fields from the add-on menu (Extensions Drive Explorer). By default, File size column is not populated. Select Export Details to get the list of files on the Sheet. Click Add items and select the folder (s) you want. In this short handy article, we will present a number of useful ls command options to list all of the files in a certain directory and sort them by file size in Linux. Open a Google Sheet, select Extensions Drive Explorer Start Export Selected items. In one of our several articles about listing files using the popular ls command, we covered how to list and sort files by last modification time (date and time) in Linux. ![]()
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