Question

What is the command to display the disk space usage the current directory excluding the size of subdirectories

Answer 1

Answer:

I want to write a command to display the disk space usage the current directory excluding the size of subdirectories. The following image describes the files and directories of the current directory:

tree diagram of three files with one subdirectory which contains three more files.

du ./ --exclude='./file*'

output will be :

4 ./dir1

4 .

I am getting first output but not second

Answer 2

Answer:

du -Sd 1

Explanation:

none