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#3 Re: Keeping track of disk space Posted by maurits (80.126.xx.xx) on Fri 20 May 2005 at 11:06 I use two aliases for du: alias dum='du --max-depth=1' alias duh='du -h --max-depth=1' dum signifies max-depth and duh signifies human-readable. "--max-depth=1" makes sure you get the disk usage for the complete directory and not for every individual ((sub)sub)subdirectory. Most of the time that is the info I want. maurits@mauritsvanrees:~/web$ duh 93K ./links 24K ./images 15M ./preken 1,1M ./studie 232K ./weblog 16M . The human readable part does not work so well when sorting: maurits@mauritsvanrees:~/web$ duh | sort -rg 232K ./weblog 93K ./links 24K ./images 16M . 15M ./preken 1,1M ./studie This sorts by numerical value, but the difference between a number with M or K at the end goes beyond sort. [BTW, I don't see any difference between 'sort -n' and 'sort -g'.] That's where the 'dum' alias comes in handy: maurits@mauritsvanrees:~/web$ dum | sort -rg 16058 . 14593 ./preken 1081 ./studie 232 ./weblog 93 ./links 24 ./images

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