See how big a folder is
Select the folder in Finder and press ⌘I — Get Info adds up everything inside. In Terminal, du -sh prints a folder’s total size in one line.
Without Terminal
- Select the folder in Finder.
- Press ⌘I; Size shows the total once it has finished counting.
In one command
Total size of a folder:
du -sh ~/Movies
The biggest folders inside your home folder, largest first:
du -sh ~/* 2>/dev/null | sort -rh | head
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