On Friday 23 September 2011 10:53:56 Darac Marjal wrote: > As an aside, this is why I don't recommend using "du -h" with "sort -n". > "du -h" is a great way to see where your space is being used, as it > presents the sizes in human readable format. However, "sort -n" sorts > numerically but critically, it doesn't know that, in this instance, 23G > is larger than 164M
Thanks, Darac. In fairness to my advisors, I must point out that they recommended sort -h. But my system, for reasons of its own, jibs at - h (I have included one of its jibs in the passage you quoted). So I changed it to - n and left myself the task of picking out the largest file. My human brain had no difficulty in recognising 22G as the largest file!! Thanks for the recommendations. I shall install and look at them - it would be nice to have choice next time I leave myself up the creek without a paddle. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109231204.30590.lisi.re...@gmail.com
