A better answer to this question 2 years on (using Terminal in OSX 10.11) is to simply add -h to the ls command to get human readable file sizes. To my understanding in later OSX editions, using brew to install coreutils is not required. (If I am wrong, someone correct me.) For example, to get … Read more
Apparent size is the number of bytes your applications think are in the file. It’s the amount of data that would be transferred over the network (not counting protocol headers) if you decided to send the file over FTP or HTTP. It’s also the result of cat theFile | wc -c, and the amount of … Read more
ncdu has the same command line options as the du command, so to exclude a directory simply use: –exclude /dir/path For example: ncdu -x / –exclude /home/tmp To exclude multiple directories: ncdu -x / –exclude /home/tmp –exclude /var/log etc. Note that you should avoid a trailing slash (use /home/tmp NOT /home/tmp/) otherwise it will fail … Read more
du -cBM –max-depth=1 2>/dev/null | sort -n or better in bash (just filter out this particular error, not all like last snippet) du -cBM –max-depth=1 2> >(grep -v ‘Permission denied’) | sort -n
Hardlinks are real references to the same file (represented by its inode). There is no difference between the “original” file and a hard link pointing to it as well. Both files have the same status, both are then references to this file. Removing one of them lets the other stay intact. Only removing the last … Read more
Another way to suppress the NativeCommandError output is to convert the objects in the pipeline to strings as outlined at the bottom of this answer: du c:\Backup 2>&1 | %{ “$_” }