How do I determine the total size of a directory (folder) from the command line?
The command du “summarizes disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories,” e.g., du -hs /path/to/directory -h is to get the numbers “human readable”, e.g. get 140M instead of 143260 (size in KBytes) -s is for summary (otherwise you’ll get not only the size of the folder but also for everything in the folder separately)