du [options] … [tree] …
Summarize disk usage by tree
, recursively for directories.
--max-depth=n |
Directories are not necessarily listed in alphabetical order unless
| sort -k2
is appended to the command.
pattern
is a shell pattern (not a regular expression).
?
matches any one character,
*
matches any string (composed of zero, one or multiple characters).
Example: *.o
will match files ending in .o
.
Exclude all files and subdirectories ending in .o
(including the file .o
).
du --exclude='*.o'
Comparing tree
s on different volumes will produce different sizes if they use different allocation schemes.