Command generators: du - disk usage builder

Human-readable sizes (K, M, G)

Summarize (total per argument only, don't list every subdirectory)

Show a grand total

Apparent size instead of disk usage (useful for sparse files)

Stay on one filesystem

Count hard-linked files every time they're encountered

Max depth (optional)

Exclude pattern (optional)

Path

Pipe to sort, largest first (sort -hr)

du -h -s .

See also