Here's an example that shows how to use find command to get directory utilized space in Linux. Many of a time during production support, or when crontab jobs failed, the reasons behind is space shortage of a directory. The find is handy you can use to get utilized space of a directory. That helps you to delete unnecessary files (that actually make some space). Linux find command Here's the find command that I  have used in our project . You will find here the detailed explanation of this command and how to use it. find  /home/srini -xdev -ls | sort +6rn | head -20 Part#1: Directory path In the first part,  after the find you need to give the directory's path for which  folder you are going to find  space. Part#2: Option -xdev The second part is  -xdev , which gives the space usage of all the subdirectories. Part#3: Option -ls The next part is the -ls option that provides a sorted list of all the subdirectories.  Part#4: Sort command Then, the sort comm...