Off topic, but maybe someone will appreciate this. I wrote a function to get the size of contents of a dir a while back. It has a couple of dependencies (gc, gwc at a glance), but should be fairly portable (correct paths for your system). The results are sorted from greatest to least as shown in the screenshot. The purpose was to be able to see directory sizes, which is the topic of this post, so I figured I’d share.

Hope it’s useful to someone. Free to modify as desired.

function szup() {

description='
#:    Title: szup
#: Synopsis: sort all items within a directory according to size
#:     Date: 2016-05-30
#:  Version: 0.0.5
#:  Options: -h | --help: print short usage info
#:         : -v | --version: print version number
'

funcname=$(echo "$description" | grep '^#:    Title: ' | sed 's/#:    Title: //g')
version=$(echo "$description" | grep '^#:  Version: ' | sed 's/#:  Version: //g')
updated="$(echo "$description" | grep '^#:     Date: ' | sed 's/#:     Date: //g')"

	function usage() {
		printf "\n%s\n" "$funcname : $version : $updated"
		printf "%s\n" ""
	}

	function sortdir() {
		Chars="$(printf "    %s" "inspecting " "$(pwd)" | wc -c)"
		divider=====================
		divider=$divider$divider$divider$divider
		format="    %-${Chars}.${Chars}s %35s\n"
		totalwidth="$(ls -1 | /usr/local/bin/gwc -L)"
		totalwidth=$(echo $totalwidth | grep -o [0-9]\\+)
		Chars=$(echo $Chars | grep -o [0-9]\\+)
		if [ "$totalwidth" -lt "$Chars" ]; then
			longestvar="$Chars"
		else
			longestvar="$totalwidth"
		fi
		shortervar=$(/Users/*********/bin/qc "$longestvar"*.8)
		shortervar=$(printf "%1.0f\n" "$shortervar")
		echo "$shortervar"
		printf "\n    %s\n" "inspecting $(pwd)"
		printf "    %$shortervar.${longestvar}s\n" "$divider"
		theOutput="$(du -hs "${theDir}"/* | gsort -hr)"
		Condensed="$(echo -n "$theOutput" | awk '{ print $1","$2 }')"
		unset arr
		declare -a arr
		arr=($(echo "$Condensed"))
		Count="$(echo "$(printf "%s\n" "${arr[@]}")" | wc -l)"
		Count=$((Count-1))
		for i in $(seq 1 $Count); do
		read var1 var2 <<< "$(printf "%s\n" "${arr[$i]}" | sed 's/,/ /g')"
		printf "   %5s    %-16s\n" "$var1" "${var2//\/*\//./}"
		done
		echo
	}

	case "$1" in
		-h|--help)
			usage
			return 0
			;;
		*)
			:
			;;
	esac

     if [ -z "$1" ]; then
             oldDir="$(pwd)"
             cd "${1}"
             local theDir="$(pwd)"
             sortdir
             cd "$oldDir"
             return 0
     else
     		:
             oldDir="$(pwd)"
             cd "${1}"
             local theDir="$(pwd)"
             sortdir
             cd "$oldDir"
             return 0
     fi
}```


![](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/2a0578ce-1fd3-4e81-b9e7-41a57eb4d62a.png)