In this tutorial, we will introduce how to get the size of a directory in linux, we will use linux du command to implement it. You can learn how to do.
How to get the size of a directory in linux?
Here is an example:
[appadmin@t0-sys06 speak-recognition]$ du -sh
You may get this result: 12G.
It means we will get the size of directory speak-recognition.
If we want to other directory, how to do?
For example, we want to get the size of /home/appadmin. We can do as follows:
du -sh /home/appadmin
You may get this result:
169G /home/appadmin