easily find megabyte eating files or directories
ruin:~$ ducks 229G total 156G Music 25G Pictures 18G Downloads 16G Movies 1G Documents 286M code 172k .ssh 112k bin 48k .git_bash_completion
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sorts the files by integer megabytes, which should be enough to (interactively) find the space wasters. Now you can
dushfor the above output,dush -n 3for only the 3 biggest files and so on. It's always a good idea to have this line in your .profile or .bashrc Show Sample Output29alias dush="du -sm *|sort -n|tail" -
An NCurses version of the famous old 'du' unix command
20ncdu -
ncdu is a text-mode ncurses-based disk usage analyzer. Useful for when you want to see where all your space is going. For a single flat directory it isn't more elaborate than an du|sort or some such thing, but this analyzes all directories below the one you specify so space consumed by files inside subdirectories is taken into account. This way you get the full picture. Features: file deletion, file size or size on disk and refresh as contents change. Homepage: http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu Show Sample Output
5ncdu directory_name -
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 Output4du -hs *|grep M|sort -n -
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 Output4du -hs *|grep M|sort -n
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26 weeks ago What do you think?
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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