Re: PATCH for a minimum size enhancement to du

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David J Craigon wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>     One of the things I like doing with du is going through directories 
> when I have run out of disk space, trying to find out what is taking up 
> of the room. I use max-depth to try and filter the directories, but this 
> tends to have the problem that I either end up with a few, big 
> directories, which I then need to run du on again, or many small 
> directories which are hard to read. Wouldn't it be great if you could do 
> du --min-size=3G and find all directories bigger than 3G?

Wouldn't the sizes relative to one another be more useful.
I.E. specify the top x% rather than a specific limit.
Have a look at: http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/dutop

Pádraig.