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du -sh ./* | sort -h

-s Gives only the total of each element
-h Human readable values
./* all element in your current location (you can change that part for a specific location
sort -h Sort the element by size (bottom = largest)

from https://superuser.com/questions/162749/how-to-get-the-summarized-sizes-of-directories-and-their-subdirectories

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