du -h —max-depth=1
Output
oliver@home:/usr$ sudo du -h --max-depth=1 24M ./include 20M ./sbin 228M ./local 4.0K ./src 520M ./lib 8.0K ./games 1.3G ./share 255M ./bin 2.4G .
Alternative
If —max-depth=1 is a bit too long for your taste, you can also try using:
du -h -s *
This uses -s (—summarize) and will only print the size of the folder itself by default. By passing all elements in the current working directory (*), it produces similar output as —max-depth=1 would:
Output
oliver@cloud:/usr$ sudo du -h -s * 255M bin 8.0K games 24M include 520M lib 0 lib64 228M local 20M sbin 1.3G share 4.0K src
The difference is subtle. The former approach will display the total size of the current working directory and the total size of all folders that are contained in it… but only up to a depth of 1.
The latter approach will calculate the total size of all passed items individually. Thus, it includes the symlink lib64 in the output, but excludes the hidden items (whose name start with a dot). It also lacks the total size for the current working directory, as that was not passed as an argument.
via linux - Bash: Display each sub-directory size in a list format using 1 line command? - Super User.