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I am looking for a shell script for Ubuntu Server that lists the disk usage of directories in a decreasing order. It should not list subfolders (recursively). The behaviour should be similar to the Treesize program on Windows and should be in a human readable format. The disk space of files which are not in a folder can be grouped together as one value. For example:

4G software 2G terry 500M thomas 50M Files

Or, should I just use ncdu? https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=sourcenames&keywords=ncdu

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This handy one-liner worked in root's directory on one of my servers.

root@server:~# du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr 29M . 19M ./.cache 48K ./.ssh 24K ./.ssh.bkup 16K ./.local 12K ./scripts 12K ./.dbus 12K ./.config 8.0K ./.synaptic 8.0K ./.hplip 8.0K ./.gnupg 4.0K ./.gvfs 4.0K ./.gconf
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