[CLUE-Tech] Changing view of ls command

Kevin Cullis kevincu at orci.com
Wed Dec 6 16:43:18 MST 2000


Grant Johnson wrote:
> 
> Do a man on du.  I am sure it has lotsa options.  Some likely do what you
> want.  If not, pipe it into grep to pick and choose what you want, or pipe
> it to sort to find the big ones, or the empty ones.  I like seeing hidden
> files and directories as well, they can be big space pigs (like your
> Netscape cache in ~/.netscape/cache)  Grep is your friend.  You can keep
> everything with a patern or pitch everything with a patern.  If you want
> more than one, pipe it through another grep.  If you do the one that will
> throw out the most records first, it will run faster.

Yep, I've come to that conclusion as well.  It'll work with AGREP as
well as GREP, so I've got a choice. Now the smaller brain cell work can
be done. Thanks Grant.

Kevin



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