[ale] dush

[Leam Hall]

I use:

   du -xk . | sort -n | tail -5

That way it's still in easy numbers and doesn't cross file system boundries.

Leam


On 03/03/15 18:23, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Nice - I hadn't realized they'd added -h to sort in later coreutils versions.
>
> Unfortunately it isn't in the RHEL5/CentOS5 version of sort from coreutils 5.97 (it is in RHEL6 coreutils 8.4 though) so this wouldn't work there.  You'd have to do "du -sk | sort -n" which is the way I learned it in UNIX years ago.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Todor Fassl
> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 5:29 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] dush
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> Here is a nice little alias to show you the  biggest files/subdirs in your current working directory:
>
> alias dush='/usr/bin/du -sh * .[!.]* | sort -h | tail'
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