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I have been using du to get the statistics about my file/folder sizes for years. Yet du is too slow for my need as I usually only want a quick overview of the sizes.

After some search I found this answer much handy to me on SuperUser:¹

# Mac

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -f'%z' | awk '{b+=$1} END {print b}'

# Linux

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c'%s' | awk '{b+=$1} END {print b}'

This will give me the statictics much faster than du.