Commands tagged quick'n'dirty sorted by votes

Commands tagged quick'n'dirty (1)

sorted by

easily find megabyte eating files or directories

This is easy to type if you are looking for a few (hundred) "missing" megabytes (and don't mind the occasional K slipping in)... A variation without false positives and also finding gigabytes (but - depending on your keyboard setup - more painful to type): du -hs *|grep -P '^(\d|,)+(M|G)'|sort -n (NOTE: you might want to replace the ',' according to your locale!) Don't forget that you can modify the globbing as needed! (e.g. '.[^\.]* *' to include hidden files and directories (w/ bash)) in its core similar to: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/706/show-sorted-list-of-files-with-sizes-more-than-1mb-in-the-current-dir Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
1,1M	htdig
1,1M	xml
1,2M	empathy
....
52M	man
55M	locale
72M	gtk-doc
94M	apps
258M	icons
316K	ImageMagick-6.5.0
366M	doc
```
3

du -hs *|grep M|sort -n

tuxlifan · 2010-03-25 19:20:24 5

What's this?

commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.

Share Your Commands

Check These Out

Remove a range of lines from a file

ignore .DS_Store forever in GIT

With a couple of little commands, you?ll be able to ignore the .DS_Store files forever from your git repositories on mac! The following command will add the .gitignore file to the git configuration git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore then, the following, will add the .DS_Store to the list echo .DS_Store >> ~/.gitignore

List all open ports and their owning executables

Particularly useful on OS X where netstat doesn't have -p option.

Send a file to a pastebin from STDIN or a file, with a single function

echo "Hello world!" | sprunge # Redirect a stream to a pastebin sprunge ~/.bashrc # Send a file to a pastebin

List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

dpigs is in the package debian-goodies (debian/ubuntu)

View internet connection activity in a browser

The output of lsof is piped to txt2html which converts it to html. # Perl module HTML::TextToHTML needed

runs a bash script in debugging mode

Get a process's pid by supplying its name

find read write traffic on disk since startup

The iostat command is used for monitoring system input/output device loading by observing the time the devices are active in relation to their average transfer rates. in ubuntu to get the iostat program do this: sudo apt-get install sysstat i found this command here: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54379

Generate random IP addresses

It never ends

Stay in the loop…

Follow the Tweets.

Every new command is wrapped in a tweet and posted to Twitter. Following the stream is a great way of staying abreast of the latest commands. For the more discerning, there are Twitter accounts for commands that get a minimum of 3 and 10 votes - that way only the great commands get tweeted.

» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu3
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu10

Subscribe to the feeds.

Use your favourite RSS aggregator to stay in touch with the latest commands. There are feeds mirroring the 3 Twitter streams as well as for virtually every other subset (users, tags, functions,…):

Subscribe to the feed for:

» all commands
» commands with 3 up-votes (commandlinefu3)
» commands with 10 up-votes (commandlinefu10)
» commands tagged quick'n'dirty

Commands tagged quick'n'dirty (1) the last day the last week the last month all time sorted by date votes

What's this?

Check These Out

Stay in the loop…

Commands tagged quick'n'dirty (1)

sorted by