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

I used to deal with space issues on shared hosting servers and ran "du -sh ./*" in the root directory to find the biggest directory, descend into it and run it again until I found the files that hog space. I showed this to a Mac user once and it blew their mind, it does work in MacOS and it does not have any decent utility to do this like Windows does. I realize this is slightly off-topic but I find this really handy on Linux and MacOS.

Michael Lazin

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On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 8:32 PM JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

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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