Re: [PLUG] du,sed,sql,free tools

[JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On 2/22/22 17:22, PaulNM via plug wrote:
> Oh wow, never knew about sort's -h and -k options. I've always had to
> use du without -h if I wanted sort's output to be usable.

That is nice.  Another neat one is `sort -V | --version-sort` which is a "natural sort of (version) numbers within text" but which also Just Works for IP addresses!  Note this is GNU `sort`...


> Anyone using du may also want to take a look at ncdu. Ncdu is a small,
> lightweight ncurses version of du. The screen is already sorted, you can
> navigate in/out of folders, and the display includes a simple bar chart
> (of #'s) to show items relative size to each other. You can switch the
> chart display between chart, percentage, both, and none via the "g" key.
> You can also delete stuff from within ncdu.

+10 for `ncdu`.

Later,
JP
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