dua Command Examples

Dua (Disk Usage Analyzer): get the disk space usage of a directory. More information: https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli.

• Analyze specific directory:

dua {{path/to/directory}}

• Display apparent size instead of disk usage:

dua --apparent-size

• Count hard-linked files each time they are seen:

dua --count-hard-links

• Aggregate the consumed space of one or more directories or files:

dua aggregate

• Launch the terminal user interface:

dua interactive

• Format printing byte counts:

dua --format {{metric|binary|bytes|GB|GiB|MB|MiB}}

• Use a specific number of threads (defaults to the process number of threads):

dua --threads {{count}}