On 20/01/10 09:43, Patrick O'Connor 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'
Note sort only recently (coreutils >= 7.5) got support for sorting
"human" format numbers. For that you need to specify -h to sort.
While on the subject, this is a script I often use:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/dutop
cheers,
Pádraig.
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