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Nov 30, 2010 at 16:11 vote accept morgant
Nov 30, 2010 at 16:11 comment added morgant Those two examples were enough to get my head around the syntax w/the awk man page to tweak them as necessary. I've found the culprit: lots (30, at this time) of 1.2GB files like /private/var/folders/zz/zzzivhrRnAmviuee+++++++++++/-Tmp-/termIdFile.XXXXXX which are open by mds (Spotlight), but result in a file-not-found error when trying to list/stat them. So, I just need to determine why mds is holding onto them.
Nov 29, 2010 at 23:18 comment added Ben Jencks FYI, the second awk command is taken almost verbatim from the "Word Sorting" page of the GNU awk manual.
Nov 29, 2010 at 22:11 comment added morgant Thanks, those two work perfectly. Will still need to dig and explore to determine what the culprit is, but those are much needed tools.
Nov 29, 2010 at 21:17 history answered Ben Jencks CC BY-SA 2.5