(Sorry to reply again, but)
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> I've had some kind of crash and the last 50 megs of my hard disk have
> been taken up with something. I can't find a core file. However, I
> know that there is a command that will show you which of your files are
> taking up the most space. Bill posted it once. Can anybody tell me
> what that command is?
Looking for core files?
# find / -iname \*core\* -print > /tmp/coresearch.txt
find all files across your filesystem that contain the a case insensitive
name "core" and print the location for dumping into that file
/tmp/coresearch.txt
would hit on:
myCorefile
corefile
icore
CoRe
CORE
corE
corel
Likely wont get hidden files (those that start with a "." but you could
tack on an or to the search and include them as well.
# find . -iname \*core\* -print -o -iname .\*core\* -print
or perhaps use another kind of "or"
Beutiful thing about *NIX is that you often have several solutions to the
same problem. :-)
Or if you are feeling close to the lunatic fringe, you could just go
through and blindly delete al files named core in the users /home dir:
(You probably don't want to do this, but you could if you wanted to...)
# find /home -name core -exec rm -f () \; >> /dev/null 2>&1 &
-ME
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GCS/CM$/IT$/LS$/S/O$ !d--(++) !s !a+++(-----) C++$(++++) U++++$(+$) P+$>+++
L+++$(++) E W+++$(+) N+ o K w+$>++>+++ O-@ M+$ V-$>- !PS !PE Y+ !PGP
t@-(++) 5+@ X@ R- tv- b++ DI+++ D+ G--@ e+>++>++++ h(++)>+ r*>? z?
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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