How to list the size of each file and directory and sort by descending size in Bash?

Question

I found that there is no easy to get way the size of a directory in Bash?

I want that when I type ls -<some options>, it can list of all the sum of the file size of directory recursively and files at the same time and sort by size order.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

Simply navigate to directory and run following command:

du -a --max-depth=1 | sort -n

Or add -h for human readable sizes and -r to print bigger directories/files first.

du -a -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr