I'm working in a directory ~/foo which has subdirectories~/foo/alpha~/foo/beta~/foo/epsilon~/foo/gammaI would like to issue a command that checks the total size under each level 1 subdirectory of ~/foo and deletes the directory along with its contents if the size is under a given amount.So, say I'd like to delete the directories whose contents have less than 50K. Issuing $ du -sh */ returns8.0K alpha/114M beta/20K  epsilon/1.2G gamma/I'd like my command to delete ~/alpha and ~/epsilon along with their contents. Is there such a command? I suspect this can be done with find somehow but I'm not quite sure how.
Command to delete directories whose contents are less than a given size
find;directory
With GNU find and GNU coreutils, and assuming your directories don't have newlines in their names:find ~/foo -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec du -ks {} + | awk '$1 <= 50' | cut -f 2-This will list directories with total contents smaller than 50K.  If you're happy with the results and you want to delete them, add | xargs -d \\n rm -rf to the end of the command line.