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sort the output of the 'du' command by largest first, using human readable output.

In this case I'm just grabbing the next level of subdirectories (and same level regular files) with the --max-depth=1 flag. leaving out that flag will just give you finer resolution. Note that you have to use the -h switch with both 'du' and with 'sort.' Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ du -h --max-depth=1 |sort -rh
4.7M	.
4.3M	./locales
120K	./initializers
112K	./.svn
112K	./environments
```
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du -h --max-depth=1 |sort -rh

jambino · 2011-11-15 20:30:00 13
sort the contents of a text file in place.

sorts the contents of a file without the need for a second file to take the sorted output. This was previously entered as `sort -g list.txt -o $_` but as others have pointed out the $_ references the previous command. so this would've worked had that been the second part of a command joined with && like: cat list.txt && sort -g list.txt -o $_ The user below me Robin had the most correct command. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
Ape
apple
Apple
Banana
Harold Kumar Digby
harry
Tape
001
01
1
```
10

sort -g -o list.txt{,}

jambino · 2011-11-15 19:59:28 7
Show the single most recently modified file in a directory

List all files in a directory in reverse order by modified timestamp. When piped through tail the user will see the most recent file name.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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ls -lFart |tail -n1

jambino · 2011-10-17 19:49:14 8
list all files in a directory, sorted in reverse order by modification time, use file descriptors.

It's both silly, and infinitely useful. Especially useful in logfile directories where you want to know what file is being updated while troubleshooting.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
1

ls -Fart

jambino · 2011-09-19 13:07:47 6

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