If you’re looking to find out the size of each file in a given directory, what Linux command would you use?

If you’re looking to find out the size of each file in a given directory, what Linux command would you use?

• ls -i
• du
• ls -a
• ls -la 

 

EXPLANATION

du -sh file_path
 
Detail

• du (disc usage) command estimates file_path space usage
• The options -sh are (from man du):
  

    -s, --summarize
           display only a total for each argument
  
    -h, --human-readable
           print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)

  To check more than one directory and see the total, use du -sch:
  

    -c, --total
           produce a grand total