How to list the size of each file and directory and sort by descending size in Bash?

Question

I found that there is no easy to get way the size of a directory in Bash?

I want that when I type ls -, it can list of all the sum o

Answer 1

Simple and fast:

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | parallel du -s | sort -n

*requires GNU Parallel.