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# Show The Size Of Everything In A Directory

The `ls` command will list everything in a given directory. The `du` command is used to display disk usage statistics -- with the `-sh` flag, it will display the file size in a human readable format.

We can combine these two commands with `xargs` to get a listing of the sizes of everything in a directory.

```
ls | xargs du -sh
```

See `man du` and `man xargs` for more details.