Linux – How to combine tree with the directory size

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I am trying to print the space occupied by directories (two levels down). The size listed is not accurate. For instance large_child_folder is 150 GB. How do I get the real directory size?

tree -L 2 -d --du -sh

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├── [8.0K]  parent_folder
│   └── [4.0K]  large_child_folder
└── [8.0K]  another_parent_folder
    └── [4.0K]  another_large_child_folder

The answer @ Print size of directory content with tree command in tree 1.5? doesn't seem correct.

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The following command will provide a human readable information, on the size of all directories which are up-to depth of 2 levels of directories below the current directory:

du --max-depth=2 -h

du - estimate file space usage - man

--max-depth=N print the total for a directory only if it is N or fewer levels below the command line argument

-h, --human-readable print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)

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Linux – How does this directory use so much space

This will give you proper answer of your trouble.

du -ch --max-depth=1 -x /var

-x will show only data usage of one file-system so skipping other filesystem's content from /var directory

--max-depth=1 will give data usage of only first level e.g. /var/a /var/b and so on

Disk Usage – Print Size of Directory Content with Tree Command

Only for tree 1.6 and above

You might want to look at:

man tree

--du For each directory report its size as the accumulation of sizes of all its files and sub-directories (and their files, and so on). The total amount of used space is also given in the final report (like the 'du -c' command.) This option requires tree to read the entire directory tree before emitting it, see BUGS AND NOTES below. Implies -s.

So you should use:

tree --du -h

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