how to get the size of file in linux code example
Example 1: linux file size
cd dir ; du -hsx * | sort -rh | head -20
# example output
# 300MB some_backup_file.log
# 1.8GB some_huge_file.war
Example 2: get the size of files in a directory linux
# Displays all the files and sizes in MB or GB
du -h --max-depth=1