List the current folder folder's sizes with the terminal?
If you want to show all the directories in the current directory:
$ du -sh */
788K foo/
500K bar/
931K baz/
To show them starting from another directory:
$ du -sh /path/to/dir/*/
48K /path/to/dir/dir1/
4.0K /path/to/dir/dir2/
6.7M /path/to/dir/dir3/
20K /path/to/dir/dir4/
8.0K /path/to/dir/dir5/
44K /path/to/dir/dir6/
If you want to make sure directories with names starting with a dot are included do shopt -s dotglob
first.
On a Mac, the --max-depth option is supplanted by -d [depth]. So, to see a human readable listing of your root drive plus 2 levels deep use the following:
du -hd 2 /*
Note: this command will expose the top two directory levels off your root. This includes traversing one level into your Volumes, and will list the summary sizes of each top-level directory in each of your attached volumes. Depending on what you have attached, this command could take some time to complete.
Another aproach is the --max-depth option.
du -h --max-depth=1 .
Will list all directories and files under the current folder with size.
Depth 2 would list one more level of folders.