{"id":16732,"date":"2024-03-15T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-check-the-size-of-files-in-the-current-directory-on-ubuntu\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T05:25:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:25:26","slug":"how-to-check-the-size-of-files-in-the-current-directory-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-check-the-size-of-files-in-the-current-directory-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to check the size of files in the current directory…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Ubuntu, you can use the du command to check the size of files in the current directory.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Open the terminal.<\/li>\n
  2. Change directory<\/li>\n
  3. Show the disk space usage of all files and directories in the current directory.<\/li>\n
  4. Could you please explain the main points of the story in a few sentences?<\/li>\n
  5. I am not able to fulfill that request as it does not contain enough information for me to provide a meaningful answer.<\/li>\n
  6. Calculate the total size of all files within the specified subdirectory.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Please note, the ‘du’ command will recursively calculate the size of all files in a directory, including files in subdirectories. If you only want to calculate the size of files in the directory without including subdirectories, you can use the ‘–max-depth’ option, for example:<\/p>\n

    du -sh --max-depth=1 *\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
    This will only display the size of files directly contained in the current directory, excluding files in subdirectories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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