On 14 May 2005, at 11:14, Conor Wynne wrote:
>>> # find . -xdev -type f -print | du -sk `ls -A` | sort -nr | head -20
>>>> that meant to do ? As Tiarnán said
>> Why the find command?
>> Dunno, why not?
Because it's completely pointless - the command was
# find . -xdev -type f -print | du -sk `ls -A` | sort -nr | head -20
which does the following
1) find - List all files under the current directory, staying on the
same disk
and pipes the output of that into
2) du - shows the size in k of every file / directory in the current
directory
whose output is piped into
3) sort - which sorts in reverse numerical order
whose output is piped into
4) head - which outputs the first 20 lines
which has the next result of showing the 20 files or directories IN the
current directory which consume most space. The find is COMPLETELY
pointless, because du does not do anything with its standard input.
Niall
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