Disk Usage in GB and Unix command to find the biggest file/folder

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Disk Space usage in GB for a folder

Try this

:

du -h -s foldername

You will get response as below:

3.3G foldername

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Originally Posted by sugavaneshwaran

Try this

:

du -h -s foldername

You will get response as below:

3.3G foldername

What platform is this performed under ?? Isn't applicable to HP-UX 11.23

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