This will show the size of everything in the current directory, including the total size of folders and the total size of individual files, in a long list format. If you want to see the size of the current directory contents from the command line, including any containing folders and files, the du -sh command with a star wildcard, like so: How to View the Size of All Directory Contents by Command Line We have discussed the disk usage commands here as well for du and the separate df command. The -s flag will insure that each specific entry is calculated, and the -h flag will make the output in human readable size format (output of size will be shown kilobytes as KB and megabytes as MB, rather than bytes). You can use this to calculate the size of any specified directory and to see the size of containing directories and files as well. Getting the Size of a Directory via Command Lineįrom the Terminal command line, issue the following syntax to see the size of a directory:įor example, to get the total size of the /Applications folder, you would issue the following command string: For casual Mac users, an easier way to get the size of a directory is through the Finder using the Get Info command on any specified folder. This is obviously aimed at command line users, and the du command for retrieving the size of a directory will work the same on Mac OS, mac OS X, linux, and most other unix varieties.
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