## Name

du - print disk usage

## Synopsis

```**sh
$ du [files...]
```

## Description

`du` prints disk usage data for every argument, in KiB (kibibytes).

## Options

* `-a`, `--all`: Write counts for all files, not just directories
* `--apparent-size`: Print apparent sizes, rather than disk usage
* `-d N`, `--max-depth N`: Print the total for a directory or file only if it is N or fewer levels below the command line argument
* `-s`, `--summarize`: Display only a total for each argument
* `-t size`, `--threshold size`: Exclude entries smaller than size if positive, or entries greater than size if negative
* `--time time-type`: Show time of time time-type of any file in the directory, or any of its subdirectories. Available choices: mtime, modification, ctime, status, use, atime, access
* `--exclude pattern`: Exclude files that match pattern
* `-X file, --exclude_from`: Exclude files that match any pattern in file

## Arguments

* `files`: Files to print disk usage of

## Examples

```sh
~ $ du -s *
4       Desktop
4       Documents
4       Downloads
6       README.md
4       Source
4       js-tests
4       tests
4       web-tests
~ $ du -a Documents
2       Documents/emoji.txt
2       Documents/zip/archive.zip
4       Documents/zip
2       Documents/tips.txt
4       Documents
~ $ du --apparent-size -a Documents
4       Documents/emoji.txt
4       Documents/zip/archive.zip
4       Documents/zip
4       Documents/tips.txt
4       Documents
```