List directories by size in Linux

1. To list the directory sizes in kilo bytes and largest at the top
2. du -sk * | sort +0nr
3. du -sk * | sort -nr
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5. To list the directory sizes in Mega bytes and largest at the top
6. du -sm * | sort +0nr
7. du -sm * | sort -nr
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9. To list the directory sizes in kilo bytes and largest at the bottom.
10. du -sk * | sort +0n
11. du -sk * | sort -n
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13. To list the directory sizes in Mega bytes and largest at the bottom.
14. du -sm * | sort +0n
15. du -sm * | sort -n
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17. To list the directory sizes in human readable format (Mix of kilo, Mega and Giga bytes) and largest at the bottom
18. du -s *|sort -n|cut -f 2-|while read a;do du -hs $a;done
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21. To list the size of hidden directories
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23. du -sk .[a-z]* | sort +0nr
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25. To list the size of all the files and directorires including hidden files and directories
26. du -sk .[a-z]* * | sort +0n