NEEDED: du-like script for packrat users
Ron Ueberschaer x4399
ubi at ginger.sri.com
Sat Mar 3 14:16:15 AEST 1990
I'll admit it--I'm a packrat. I'm also the local radar imaging
guru, so I've got a lot of freeware sources, data files, images,
etc. cluttering up our disks.
When it comes time to free up space, I realize that, according
to someone's famous law, 80-90% of my disk usage is in 10-20% of
the files. I usually resort to something like:
> cd
> du -s */ | sort -rn | head -20
> cd <biggest dir>
> du -s */ | sort -rn | head -20
> cd <biggest subdir>
> ls -sl | sort -rn | head -20
to get to the big non-directory files that I might decide I can
do without. This is time-consuming and often confusing (du doesn't
show which files are directories; ls doesn't show the grand-total for
directories). What would be really nice is some sort of report script
called, say, "bigoldfiles", which would do all this automatically.
Perhaps something using du and find. I remember a program called
"byteyears" which seemed pretty useful... Is there anything better?
Well how 'bout it, wizards?
--Ron Ueberschaer
SRI International
ubi at unix.sri.com
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