[ILUG] Script for Calculating Disk Usage

[Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix -]

Patrick O'Connor wrote:
> 2010/1/19 Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix - <ompaul at eircom.net>
> 
>> du -cks * | sort -rn
>>
> 
> That's one hell of an itch scratched! Having great fun trying it out on my
> boxen! (Sad I know)
> 
> Patrick

Patrick

no that was not sad, that was intuitive, this is sad:

and you think that is sad try this version
du -cks * | sort -rn | head -11

and then for added being a fun person

alias ducks='du -cks * | sort -rn | head -5'

Top five disk hogs

You could of course change your head to tail after you dropped the -r in 
sort but why bother. :)

Happy Wednesday.

P.