du -sh file_path
Explanation
-
du
(disc usage) command estimates file_path space usage -
The options
-sh
are (fromman du
):-s,--summarize display only a total for each argument -h,--human-readable print sizes in human readable format (e.g.,1K 234M 2G)
To check more than one directory and see the total,use
du -sch
:-c,--total produce a grand total