Comments on: When Scripting Helps http://g33q.co.za/2009/05/20/when-scripting-helps/ The New Look Tech Blog Tue, 15 May 2012 17:00:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jaco Kroon http://g33q.co.za/2009/05/20/when-scripting-helps/comment-page-1/#comment-198 Jaco Kroon Thu, 21 May 2009 18:07:54 +0000 http://blog.g33q.co.za/?p=103#comment-198 I used to use this quite often to show students what's going on in their home directories: du -s .[^.]* * | sort -gr | head And if they didn't clean up voluntarily after an initial unlock I'd change that to actually take the top line, execute an rm -rf on it, rince and repeat until the user's folder was within limits. *sigh* ... oh how I miss the days of being able to tell a student my server is NOT for storing their .avi and .mp3 files ... I used to use this quite often to show students what’s going on in their home directories:

du -s .[^.]* * | sort -gr | head

And if they didn’t clean up voluntarily after an initial unlock I’d change that to actually take the top line, execute an rm -rf on it, rince and repeat until the user’s folder was within limits. *sigh* … oh how I miss the days of being able to tell a student my server is NOT for storing their .avi and .mp3 files …

]]> By: Quintin http://g33q.co.za/2009/05/20/when-scripting-helps/comment-page-1/#comment-197 Quintin Wed, 20 May 2009 20:18:46 +0000 http://blog.g33q.co.za/?p=103#comment-197 Wowee, you are quick - I was still proofreading when I saw your comment come in via gmail. (For some reason I proof-read better after posting...) Well I guess you can label what I did "Basic" bash scripting, and I bet that with a little creativity you can fit everything I did in a single line sans temporary files. It is a little freaky that a similar post to mine was posted just a few days ago. I have never heard of hacker news - will give it a definite read through. Thanks for the headsup! Wowee, you are quick – I was still proofreading when I saw your comment come in via gmail. (For some reason I proof-read better after posting…)

Well I guess you can label what I did “Basic” bash scripting, and I bet that with a little creativity you can fit everything I did in a single line sans temporary files.

It is a little freaky that a similar post to mine was posted just a few days ago. I have never heard of hacker news – will give it a definite read through.

Thanks for the headsup!

]]> By: Alex http://g33q.co.za/2009/05/20/when-scripting-helps/comment-page-1/#comment-196 Alex Wed, 20 May 2009 19:59:18 +0000 http://blog.g33q.co.za/?p=103#comment-196 Similar script-fu was on hacker news a few days ago. If you read comments, they come up with perl-free oneliner that does this with no temporary files. http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/ Similar script-fu was on hacker news a few days ago. If you read comments, they come up with perl-free oneliner that does this with no temporary files.

http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/

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