At 16:41 Uhr +0000 24.01.2002, Steve Wall wrote:
>One thing I miss from Linux is the improved (gnu?) "du"
>tool it supplies which has additional options beyond what
>the OS X supplied "du" has.  Specifically, it allows you
>to limit the degree to which du will dive down into the
>filepath you supply it, providing summary level information
>instead. I like this feature a lot when I'm looking to
>free some disk space and am not sure where it being consumed,
>but only want the big picture provided by listing usage
>a level or three deep.
>So, is this capability available in a fink packaged "du",
>and it is in fileutils or elsewhere?
>Steve Wall


It is indeed in fileutils. As is an improved version of ls (which 
support the --color option, very nifty IMHO) and various other nice 
tools.

Another mini-package you might like is "tree".


Max
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