Sorted and aggregated disk usage script
I've been asked for this script many times lately, so I'll publish it. It lists the disk usage of subdirectories in a given directory in descending order, right justified and suffixed with kilobytes or megabytes appropriately. #!/bin/sh display() { local DIR=$1 du -sk $DIR/..?* $DIR/.[!.]* $DIR/* 2>/dev/null | sort -n | awk ' { size = $1; sum += size; name = $2; if ($1 < 1024){ printf("%9ik %s\n",size,name); } else { printf("%9.3fM %s\n",size/1024,name); } } END{ print sum " kiB" } ' } main() { local DIR=$1 if [ "$DIR" = "" ] then display $HOME quota else display $DIR fi } m...