Techlet: Find how much space certain file types take up

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:39:00 -0600

I am pretty sloppy with my file organization. Usually, I just store things where I think they would be useful at that point in time, not necessarily where they logically belong. Eventually, I get curious of how many of a particular file type I have and how much space they are taking up. Below is a convoluted shell command that searches the home directory for every file with a particular extension and displays how many of that type there are and how much space they’re taking up.

Linux on Veblenia

Techlet: Find how much space certain file types take up