On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > > P.S. http://wooledge.org/~greg/ds will sort the installed packages by > size for you. As you can see, many of us have been there, done that. >
I would like to mention couple of things 1) You can do this by running dpigs in the debian-goodies package. For example % dpigs -H -n 5 284.0M rstudio 228.2M valgrind-dbg 180.7M google-chrome-stable 164.0M gcompris-data 155.9M linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 where -H lists the size in human readable format, -n specifies the number of packages to be listed. BTW there is nothing wrong with having your own script. I do it all the time:). But I thought it might help users who are not aware of this functionality in Debian itself. 2) The results from your script and dpigs are not consistent. The dpigs utility shows valgrind-dbg but your script does not show it. % perl ds | head -n 5 rstudio 290867 google-chrome-stable 184994 gcompris-data 167973 linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 159681 chromium 158398 % dpigs -n 5 290867 rstudio 233675 valgrind-dbg 184994 google-chrome-stable 167973 gcompris-data 159681 linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 3) Please consider putting these type of scripts in a public repository hosting services such as gitlab or github? They make it easier for others to collaborate by reducing the barrier to report bugs, suggest features, provide patches etc., thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog