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[ILUG] Script for Calculating Disk Usage

[ILUG] Script for Calculating Disk Usage

Patrick O'Connor patrick.oconnor at sysadmin.ie
Wed Jan 20 10:15:07 GMT 2010


2010/1/20 Francis Daly <francisdaly at gmail.com>

> On 20/01/2010, Patrick O'Connor <patrick.oconnor at sysadmin.ie> wrote:
> > 2010/1/20 Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix - <ompaul at eircom.net>
>
> >> and then for added being a fun person
> >>
> >> alias ducks='du -cks * | sort -rn | head -5'
> >>
> >
> > For top comedy value (and readability) you could give the alias a funny
> > accent...
> >
> >  alias ducksh ='du -cksh * | sort -rn | head -5'
>
> ...for values of "funny accent" that includes "wrong answer".
>
> Here at least:
>
> du --version
> du (GNU coreutils) 5.97
>
> the "h" overrides the "k", so "100K" is bigger than "3M", which is
> possibly not desired.
>

Aaggh! Even ilug has hecklers! :-)

Patrick

>
>        f
>



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