show file size in GB linux code example

Example 1: list file size as mb

ls -l --block-size=M

Example 2: 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 3: display file size in mb in linux

prashad@ubuntu:~/working_dir/opencv$ ls -lh CMakeLists.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 prashad prashad 65M Sep 29 01:05 CMakeLists.txt
prashad@ubuntu:~/working_dir/opencv$ 


NOTE:
To display the file sizes in units like 7K, 5M, 8.2G, etc… use the -lh option with  ls. 
"ls -lh"

Example 4: linux command for file size

#Get file size of each folder
du -bsh *