What command combo at terminal will output a list of directories with human-readable sizes?

Solution 1:

In order to see a list of folders with sizes you can use the du command.

To make the sizes human readable use the -h option

To make sum the size of child folders use the -s option (may take some time to run depending on the contents).

du -hs *

Here is an (uninteresting) example of the output.

   0B   Desktop
 632K   Documents
 356K   Downloads
  76M   Library
   0B   Movies
   0B   Music
 4.0K   Pictures
   0B   Public
  40K   Sites