[t_hozumi]

du -sh ./D*

  872K	./Desktop
  78M	./Documents
  3.2G	./Downloads

[k_bx]

I would add | sort -h here

[brendano]

if you don't have "sort -h" (mine doesn't do it), you can also use "du -m", which gives file sizes in megabytes -- pretty reasonable. (then "sort -n")