Re: [ALUG] disk space and shell patterns, was: Weekly IRC reminder

MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> writes:

It's a shame there wasn't a suitable pretty disk use tool,

xdiskusage?

but I got a long way (half a gig freed up) by using "du -sk * | sort -n" in home and working on down the tree. Is there a good pattern (is this a glob?) which will cover all dot files but not . (current directory) and .. (parent dir) or is .??* as good as it gets?

There's no single glob, you have to use two. If there aren't (for instance) any .. files then this is a bit inconvenient, but that's probably survivable for command line use. .[!.]* ..?* -- http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/