Re: solution to / full

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 09:45:38AM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> --✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂ --✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--
> 
> STATUS_FILE=/var/lib/dpkg/status
> dpigs()
> {
>     TL=${1-10}
>     awk -v RS='' '/Status:.*installed\n/' "$STATUS_FILE" \
>         | grep -E '^(Installed-Size|Package)' \
>         | cut -d: -f2- \
>         | paste - -  \
>         | sort -rnk2 \
>         | awk '{ print $2 "\t" $1 }' \
>         | head -n "$TL" \
>         | tac
> }
> dpigs "$@"
> 
> --✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂ --✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--✂--

I don't understand why you used sort -r, but then reversed it again with
tac at the end.  You could drop both of the reversals, and just change
head to tail.

Anyway... I wrote mine in perl, quite a few years ago (timestamp says
September 2004).  There's a copy at <https://wooledge.org/~greg/ds>.
I named it before I even knew that "dpigs" existed.  I can't blame past
me for not knowing... dpigs is extremely well hidden.