linux command line: du --- how to make it show only total for each directories

Solution 1:

This works with coreutils 5.97:

du -cksh *

Solution 2:

On my version of du (from coreutils 8.14) this works:

du -h -d 1

-h is for human readable sizes.

Solution 3:

The following did the job for me:

du -hs */

Without the trailing slash the output was not restricted to directories.