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For a CLI alternative to manually running `du -sh *` recursively to try and find which directory is taking up your space I recommend `ncdu`.

I'm pretty sure there was a similar CLI app better than `ncdu` but I don't recall it right now.

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There is also Duc: https://duc.zevv.nl/. It has a both a Tui and a Gui, but can also do nifty CGI things (shameless plug)

Seconded. Duc is awesome. Thanks for your great work on it!

I love duc but man is it nearly impossible to build.

author here. please drop your grievances in a github issue t see if we can help you out, because building should be a simple as "configure && make && make install"

baobab is a nice GUI alternative that has similar graphs to duc, except I can never remember the name =P (fortunately it shows up when I search the "start menu" for "usage")

https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer

I use `ncdu --color dark` for pretty colors.

i have an alias that shows each folder in the current directory humanized... might have been slightly modified from one where i got it to work on macos. duf == disk utilization folders. a caveat is that it can be a bit slow if there are a lot of files/subdirectories.

alias duf='du -sk * | sort -n | perl -ne '\''($s,$f)=split(m{\t});for (qw(K M G)) {if($s<1024) {printf("%.1f",$s);print "$_\t$f"; last};$s=$s/1024}'\'

What's the difference vs:

  du --max-depth=1 -h | gsort -h

for one it works on osx... i don't know about the output. that said there are many ways to do something

Another option is

du | sort -n

(I've got it aliased to "dun".)

Or human readable. This is what I usually use:

    du -sh * | sort -h

Wow thanks for sort -h (sorting by human representation, 2M>150k) gnu tools never cease to amaze me.

Thanks! I've got a new alias cut out for me: duh! :-)

also dust https://github.com/bootandy/dust

`rclone ncdu` for cloud storages.

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