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Re: Tool showing directory size of the complet drive



On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:35:58PM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Glyn Kennington wrote:
> 
> > Charlie Reiman wrote:
> > > If you just want to see all files and their sizes, try 'find . -ls'. Sorting
> > > this is left as an exercise for the reader.
> > 
> > ls -l puts the size in the 5th columns, so piping the output through 
> > sort -n -k 5
> > will put them in ascending order.
> > 
> > Which brings me on to another little gripe:
> > Does anyone else find that files >100MB (requiring more than 8 digits in the
> > size column) break the alignment of ls -l's output?  Example:
> > 
> > drwxrwx--x    2 glyn     glyn         4096 Nov 17 22:10 bin
> > drwxrwx--x    9 glyn     glyn         8192 Nov 20 11:37 src
> > -r--r--r--    1 glyn     glyn     110215168 Nov 20 00:21 sessions_1-4.iso
> >                                           ^^
>  Thanx for the ls hint ... I did it with:
> 
>  ls -ahRS > /tmp/ls.txt
> 
> It was a huge file ... thought there would be a nicer way to find my
> disk-space.

You could just pipe it to less or vim to reads it:
ls -lahRS|vim -

-rob

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