Jakob Truelsen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Voelker, Bernhard > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jakob Truelsen wrote: > > > >> I often find myself using sed to filter out only large entries in the > >> output of du, this patch adds a --min-size option to du to do this in > >> a more pratical way. > >> > >> commit 3ce873cddcd608a654750ffa67d070c1ce82b036 > >> Author: Jakob Truelsen <[email protected]> > >> Date: Tue Oct 11 15:28:26 2011 +0200 > >> > >> Add min-size option to du to only show information about large entities > > > > why not use e.g. find -size? > > Primarily because I also want folders with lots of medium sized files > to show up, I have not found a way to do this with find
good point ... although you could use 'sort -h' for filtering, e.g. du -ah | sort -hr | head -n 10 Your --min-size option is not a bad thing, however, maybe it's worth turning it into --size as in 'find' so that people could also filter files/directories smaller than a certain size. Berny
