Project Wild Penguin 23.4.2017: To list the size of sub-directories inside a directory using terminal

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Simple command to list the size of sub-directories inside a directory using terminal :

du -sh * | sort -h
will get you a human-readable ascending list of the sizes of files and subdirectories in your current directory,
du -sh
will summarize the current directory size.

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