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6 du - estimate file space usage
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9 du [OPTION]... [FILE]...
10 du [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
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13 Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories.
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18 -a, --all
19 write counts for all files, not just directories
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21 --apparent-size
22 print apparent sizes, rather than disk usage; although the
23 apparent size is usually smaller, it may be larger due to holes
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27 -B, --block-size=SIZE
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34 produce a grand total
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36 -D, --dereference-args
37 dereference only symlinks that are listed on the command line
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39 --files0-from=F
40 summarize disk usage of the NUL-terminated file names specified
41 in file F; If F is - then read names from standard input
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43 -H equivalent to --dereference-args (-D)
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45 -h, --human-readable
46 print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)
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48 --si like -h, but use powers of 1000 not 1024
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50 -k like --block-size=1K
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52 -l, --count-links
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55 -m like --block-size=1M
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61 don't follow any symbolic links (this is the default)
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64 end each output line with 0 byte rather than newline
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66 -S, --separate-dirs
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69 -s, --summarize
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72 -x, --one-file-system
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75 -X, --exclude-from=FILE
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81 --max-depth=N
82 print the total for a directory (or file, with --all) only if it
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86 --time show time of the last modification of any file in the directory,
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89 --time=WORD
90 show time as WORD instead of modification time: atime, access,
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93 --time-style=STYLE
94 show times using style STYLE: full-iso, long-iso, iso, +FORMAT
95 FORMAT is interpreted like `date'
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97 --help display this help and exit
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99 --version
100 output version information and exit
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102 Display values are in units of the first available SIZE from
103 --block-size, and the DU_BLOCK_SIZE, BLOCK_SIZE and BLOCKSIZE environ‐
104 ment variables. Otherwise, units default to 1024 bytes (or 512 if
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108 lowing: KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G, T,
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112 PATTERN is a shell pattern (not a regular expression). The pattern ?
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115 files whose names end in .o. Therefore, the command
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117 du --exclude='*.o'
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119 will skip all files and subdirectories ending in .o (including the file
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123 Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert, and Jim
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127 Report du bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
128 GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
129 General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
130 Report du translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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133 Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
134 GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
135 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
136 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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139 The full documentation for du is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
140 the info and du programs are properly installed at your site, the com‐
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143 info coreutils 'du invocation'
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149GNU coreutils 8.5 November 2010 DU(1)