How to check folders size in Windows without showing all subfolder files?

Question

Is there a CMD command to show the folder size in side a directory?

I know I can dir /s/a and see all the sizes of files inside folders and subfolders of directory. However I am trying to find a log file in the Windows directory folder so was trying to find properties (like if you right clicked and got properties using the GUI).

Solution

Microsoft provides du (Disk Usage utility) as a part of the SysInternals suite.

You can run:

du.exe <folder>

To get statistics like:

Files:        18
Directories:  3
Size:         11,459,083 bytes
Size on disk: 11,505,696 bytes

To show statistics only for the folder without subfolders add the -n argument:

du.exe -n <folder>

Comments

[Luke]

Is there a du command to show a range of folders?

[techraf]

What do you mean by a "range"?

[Luke]

I looked at some of the use cases at it looks like it will be a good tool for finding the problem I am looking for.