On Vi, 12 mar 21, 17:42:48, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2021-03-12 at 18:13 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > My personal favorite: > > > > du -hx --max-depth=1 <path> | sort -h > > > > You can use the short option -d instead of --max-depth, and make it's > parameter '1' come straight after [1], so my go-to command for tracking > down where disk space is been used is... > > du -hd1 | sort -h > > then 'cd' into a likely candidate directory and repeat. > > [1] parameters for short options like this only works for last short > option in a joined list, e.g. -d1h is invalid. Ah, that's probably why I stuck with the long form when I started using it. I'm guessing I was bit by my habit of adding options as I read through the man page (and du(1) has them mostly in alphabetic order). Will start retraining my fingers ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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