find out how much space a directory is using linux code example

Example 1: linux check used space in folder

du -h --max-depth=1

Example 2: linux find size of directory and subdirectories

du -s /home/george

Example 3: command line size of directory

# The -s flag will insure that each specific entry is calculated, 
# and the -h flag will make the output in human readable size format
du -sh /directory/path