linux file size of directory code example

Example 1: how to get the size of directory in linux

du -sh /var

Example 2: command to check size of folder in linux

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

Example 3: get the size of files in a directory linux

# Displays all the files and sizes in MB or GB
du -h --max-depth=1