Commands tagged size

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as per eightmillion's comment.

Simply economical :)

Shows the size of the directory the command is ran in.

The size is in MB and GB.

There is no need to type the path, its the current working directory.

Use this to find identify if dirs mostly contain large or small files.

Downloads the entire file, but http servers don't always provide the optional 'Content-Length:' header, and ftp/gopher/dict/etc servers don't provide a filesize header at all.

Specify the size in bytes using the 'c' option for the -size flag. The + sign reads as "bigger than". Then execute du on the list; sort in reverse mode and show the first 10 occurrences.

This command lists all the directories in SEARCHPATH by size, displaying their size in a human readable format.

- Where $URL is the URL of the file.

- Replace the $2 by $3 at the end to get a human-readable size.

Credits to svanberg @ ArchLinux forums for original idea.

Edit: Replaced command with better version by FRUiT. (removed unnecessary grep)

Show the top file size in human readable form

Show the top 10 file size

Also:

* find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5

* find . -type f -exec ls -l {} \; | awk '{print $5 "\t" $9}' | sort -n -r | head -5

Greater than 500M and sorted by size.

you can change the size :)

Display the size (human reading) of all the directories in your home path (~).

This one-liner is for cron jobs that need to provide some basic information about a filesystem and the time it takes to complete the operation. You can swap out the di command for df or du if that's your thing. The |& redirections the stderr and stdout to the mail command.

How to configure the variables.

TOFSCK=/path/to/mount

FSCKDEV=/dev/path/device

or

FSCKDEV=`grep $TOFSCK /proc/mounts | cut -f1 -d" "`

MAILSUB="weekly file system check $TOFSCK "

This deals nicely with filenames containing special characters and can deal with more files than can fit on a commandline. It also avoids spawning du.

This command shows the size of directories below here, refreshing every 2s.

It will also track directories created after running the command (that what the find bit does).

files

The original didn't use -print0 which fails on weird file names eg with spaces.

The original parsed the output of 'ls -l' which is always a bad idea.