linux how to tell how much space a directory is using code example

Example 1: command to check size of folder in linux

du -lh --max-depth=1 --block-size=M | sort -nr

Example 2: 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