Duchs

This command is non-standard but can be very useful the command originated from the O'Rielly book 101 linux server hacks.

it requires a working version of perl.

  ED Note: you may need to remove the \'s at the ends of the lines and make it one line when saving to a file

The internals of the command itself are not very pretty, but it uses du to get the size of each directory in the current one, then uses the program sort to sort all of the entries and then runs the whole thing through head to print the top 9 directories, to print more simply run the command like this (also here is a sample output)

 

the options to it get passed immediately to the head command.