On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 02:03:36AM -0500, Harley J Pig wrote:
> I haven't read you're page yet (it's loading as I type) but I like using
> this one:
> 
> for i in `ls` ; do du -h $i ; done
> 
> which will give you a human readable list of sizes each directory is
> changing.  Can anyone think of a good way to sort that?
> 
> Alan

I know that 'du -sh *' does mostly the same as what you mentioned.  But
tonight Frank Sorenson showed me a really cool one where you can do 'du
-k |sort -n |tail -30'.  It sorts all of the biggest subdirectories and
files.

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