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This is very quick, simple and practical

zzapper
– zzapper

2012-10-29 16:43:08 +00:00
Commented Oct 29, 2012 at 16:43
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grep '[0-9]G' contained a lot of false positives and also omitted any decimals. This worked better for me: sudo du -h / | grep -P '^[0-9\.]+G'

jchavannes
– jchavannes

2014-08-14 06:09:06 +00:00
Commented Aug 14, 2014 at 6:09
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@jchavannes -P is unnecessary for this expression because there's nothing specific to Perl there. Also, -P isn't portable to systems that don't have the GNU implementation.

Ben Collins
– Ben Collins

2014-08-14 18:11:42 +00:00
Commented Aug 14, 2014 at 18:11
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In case you have really big directories, you'll want [GT] instead of just G

Vitruvie
– Vitruvie

2015-03-28 20:20:35 +00:00
Commented Mar 28, 2015 at 20:20
33

I like to use du -h | sort -hr | head

augurar
– augurar

2016-06-13 18:48:47 +00:00
Commented Jun 13, 2016 at 18:48

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create code fences with backticks ` or tildes ~
```
like so
```
add language identifier to highlight code
```python
def function(foo):
print(foo)
```
put returns between paragraphs
for linebreak add 2 spaces at end
_italic_ or **bold**
indent code by 4 spaces
backtick escapes `like _so_`
quote by placing > at start of line
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