[ILUG] Script for Calculating Disk Usage

[Ken Guest]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Patrick O'Connor
<patrick.oconnor at sysadmin.ie> wrote:
> 2010/1/20 Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix - <ompaul at eircom.net>
>
>> Patrick O'Connor wrote:
>>
>>> 2010/1/19 Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix - <ompaul at eircom.net>
>>>
>>>  du -cks * | sort -rn
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That's one hell of an itch scratched! Having great fun trying it out on my
>>> boxen! (Sad I know)
>>>
>>> Patrick
>>>
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> no that was not sad, that was intuitive, this is sad:
>>
>> and you think that is sad try this version
>> du -cks * | sort -rn | head -11
>>
>> 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'

that's comedy?

I prefer:
alias quack='du -cksh * | sort -rn | head -5'


:p

> Patrick
>
>>
>> Top five disk hogs
>>
>> You could of course change your head to tail after you dropped the -r in
>> sort but why bother. :)
>>
>> Happy Wednesday.
>>
>> P.
>>
>>
>>
>
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