Ultimate current directory usage command

O=$IFS;IFS=$'\n'; D=$(for f in *;do [[ -d $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);F=$(for f in *;do [[ -f $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);IFS=$O;echo "$D";echo "$F"

biggest->small directories, then biggest->smallest files

Sample Output

]> O=$IFS;IFS=$'\n'; D=$(for f in *;do  [[ -d $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);F=$(for f in *;do [[ -f $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);IFS=$O;echo "$D";echo "$F"
172K	images
8.0K	css
8.0K	index.html~
8.0K	index.html

or alias memorable-command=']> O=$IFS;IFS=$'\n'; D=$(for f in *;do  [[ -d $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);F=$(for f in *;do [[ -f $f ]] 
&& du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);IFS=$O;echo "$D";echo "$F"'

and run memorable-command

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By: Viperlin

2009-09-03 11:39:50

du sort

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Ultimate current directory usage command

An NCurses version of the famous old 'du' unix command
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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ncdu

nickwe · 2009-09-03 20:38:32 30
Ultimate current directory usage command

use manpages, they give you "ultimate commands" "ls -SshF --color" list by filesize (biggest at the top) "ls -SshFr --color" list by filesize in reverse order (biggest at the bottom) Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
> ls
total 24K
4.0K css/  4.0K images/  8.0K index.html  8.0K index.html~
```
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ls -shF --color

Viperlin · 2009-09-03 05:45:33 9

What Others Think

That doesn't sort correctly. Perhaps you should give up vandalising the site now In case he edits it, the command is O=$IFS;IFS=$'\n'; D=$(for f in *;do [[ -d $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);F=$(for f in *;do [[ -f $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);IFS=$O;echo "$D";echo "$F" O=$IFS;IFS=$'\n'; D=$(for f in *;do [[ -d $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);F=$(for f in *;do [[ -f $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);IFS=$O;echo "$D";echo "$F"

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