The du command (the name is shortened from “disk usage”), as the name implies, will simply display, in its output, the amount of disk space being used by a specified file or directory. For example, if you’re wondering why it seems like there are files that are consuming more disk space than they should be, you can use the du command to ... More @Wikipedia
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