du on Directories with Spaces

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#du on Directories with Spaces

To get the sizes of all subdirectories including the hiddsn ones I typically use the command:

du -sh $(ls -A)

However, this command does not work well if you have directory names with spaces. Here is how you can do it:

find . -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 du -s

or if you want the result nicely sorted nicely and human-readable:

find . -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 du -sh | sort -h