Using du.exe (Sysinternals) is it possible to show folders above a certain size?
Solution 1
I'm providing a new variant on the previous du
/ powershell
combos, just because neither of them worked for me with du
v1.61, and others may face the same issue. I ran into a few problems with the previous variants:
du
's-nobanner
switch needs to be included (and wasn't) so thatConvertFrom-Csv
doesn't choke on the banner at the top (for me, manifesting as mysterious invisible output)- Even then, powershell would return e.g.
Cannot convert value "40822284152" to type "System.Int32". Error: "Value was either too large or too small for an Int32."
for some lines; presumably very large directories. - Lastly, the output would include very small directories, well below 1GB, despite the presence of
Where-Object { [int]$_.DirectorySize -gt 1048576 }
I'm not a powershell expert, but I've managed to adapt the previous two variants to provide a working solution:
du -nobanner -c -l 3 \ | ConvertFrom-Csv | select Path,@{Name="DirectorySize";expression={$_.DirectorySize / 1GB }} | Where-Object { $_.DirectorySize -gt 1 } | Sort-Object { $_.DirectorySize } -descending
And just for giggles, here's a less flexible / less precise solution using du
and findstr
with a regular expression:
du -l 3 \ | findstr /R /C:",[0-9][0-9][0-9],[0-9][0-9][0-9] "
This takes advantage of the pattern that directories over 1GB
will be printed in. Specifically there will be an extra leading comma before the three digits, and then another comma followed by three more digits. The trailing two spaces are required to filter out the totals that are printed at the bottom. Note: this solution doesn't sort by directory size as with the powershell solution.
Solution 2
As the other answer says, you can't do it with du.exe
alone. PowerShell to the rescue!
.\du.exe -c -l 3 C:\ | ConvertFrom-Csv -Header Size,Path | Where-Object { [int]$_.Size -gt 1048576 } | Sort-Object { [int]$_.Size } -descending
Explanation
Breaking that long command down into the individual bits that are each piped into the next one:
.\du.exe -c -l 3 C:\
This is basically what you started with, except the -c
parameter tells du
to format the output as CSV.
ConvertFrom-Csv -Header Size,Path
This takes the CSV output from du
and converts it into a PowerShell hashtable. Since du
doesn't provide a header with column names, that has to be done manually.
Where-Object { [int]$_.Size -gt 1048576 }
This filters the data, returning only those rows where the size is greater than 1 GB (du
returns sizes in KB, and 1 GB = 1048576 KB). Note the [int]
part, to let PowerShell know that it's dealing with numeric data.
Sort-Object { [int]$_.Size } -descending
This sorts the data by size, in descending order (again specifying that the data to sort by is numeric). This is optional, of course.
Solution 3
In the latest du.exe version appending a header with Powershell ConvertFrom-Csv doesn't work out of the box, because du.exe appends it's own header in the listing. What we need to do is select the existing header with select command.
du.exe -c -l 3 C:\ | ConvertFrom-Csv | select Path,DirectorySize | Where-Object { [int]$_.DirectorySize -gt 1048576 }
Solution 4
An up to date answer for cmd.exe if du is in System32:
du -l 3 * | findstr /R /C:",[0-9][0-9][0-9],[0-9][0-9][0-9] " | sort
Will take more time but will give you what you are looking for I like 1 depth.
du -l 1 * | findstr /R /C:",[0-9][0-9][0-9],[0-9][0-9][0-9] " | sort
- STAR - Will retrieve the current dir
You can combine this with an earlier answer from jimadine in order to set a doskey command.
DOSKEY sz=du -l $1 * | findstr /R /C:",[0-9][0-9][0-9],[0-9][0-9][0-9] " | sort
Usage is
sz <search depth>
Solution 5
That options isn't available with DU 1.4
Usage: du [-c] [-l (levels) | -n | -v] [-u] [-q] (directory)
-c Print output as CSV.
-l Specify subdirectory depth of information (default is all levels).
-n Do not recurse.
-q Quiet (no banner).
-u Count each instance of a hardlinked file.
-v Show size (in KB) of intermediate directories.
So just using DU can't limit the output to something of a specific size.
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Iain is a software developer from Wokingham, UK. Has a first-class degree in Computing Science from the University of Manchester. Currently works for a leading financial institution in London on C# and Java projects.
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Iain over 1 year
du.exe
lets you recursively identify folders that take up a large amount of space. For example, the following will show you the size of all the folders fromc:\
3-levels deep:du.exe -l 3 c:\
How can I filter this output to only show me the folders above 1GB?
Here's an extract of the output from
du.exe
for reference:Du v1.4 - report directory disk usage Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com 6,344,864 c:\Windows\winsxs 18,268,671 c:\Windows 483,343,308 c:\ Files: 412125 Directories: 42072 Size: 494,943,548,281 bytes Size on disk: 487,560,269,896 bytes
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Iain about 12 yearsHappy to combine with other tools available on the command line.
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Bon Gart about 12 yearsThen there you go. Indrek has the answer you want. I gave it a +1.