24 Aug
2004
24 Aug
'04
2:11 p.m.
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.
.[!.]* ..?*