anti — Wed, 26 May 1999 23:02:00 +0000

thanx for stepping in pat.

the "-s" option just shows the sum.

there should be a pipe ("") between du -s and sort -n,
this will sort the output of du -s assuming that the first column is numeric.

ciao
anti

anti — Tue, 25 May 1999 23:23:00 +0000

on a unix host i wouldn't even consider using perl.

try:
du
or du -s
or du -s sort -n

I like the last one. It tell's you which are the biggest sub-dirs of the current dir.

In perl I'd use the dir-traversing module and stat every file, but that's very slow. Try using du.
(Even if you use a windows-host - why should you - there is a du.exe somewhere out there.)

ciao
Anti

Tue, 25 May 1999 22:53:00 +0000

the du-function is supposed to show you the size of each file or directory on your devices on a unix-system.
for example, to show the size of all files in bytes type:
du -b
to create a file and write the results into it (might be very useful since you will probably not be able to read faster than the computer prints )type:
du -b >filename.txt

by the way, you can get help from unix by typing:
man du, this will print the manual for the du-command or use:
du --help to get a short summary
cu
patrick

fairhousing — Tue, 25 May 1999 22:46:00 +0000

Is there a script out there or something that will help me see what exactly is taking up so much disk space. Currently, the only method I have for seeing how much each takes up is by looking at each file individually. Is there a way to rank them according to how much space they take up, so the biggest will be listed first. I understand if you think this post is incoherent, it's a bit past my bedtime.

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