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pyroblue on 05/20/11


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find the largest directories in a Unix shell

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  1. #the entire filesystem, starting at '/'
  2. du -a /* | sort -n -r | head -n 10
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  4. #or for a particular directory:
  5. du -a /home/username/ | sort -n -r | head -n 10

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