Articles tagged ‘bash’

Sometimes you’re working on your computer and things start to work strange. The softwares starts to crash without reason… uhoh… or my home or my temp/var folders are full.

To quickly have an overview of your directory sizes du helps wonderfully!

du is an utility binary that comes with (I think) most Linux distributions and some BSD that lists all directories’ and subdirectories’ “disk usage” (got it?). By default, du scans recursively until the last directory on tree.

The --max-depth attribute used with the -h (human-readable units) provides a good look at your disks’ size.

The following code scans only your first directories whithin your home directory:

du -h --max-depth=1 ~

Just change the --max-depth value to match your needs.

We’ve all seen the most diverse kind of article of “Best web development ________”, “Applications to aid agile web development”… ahh that word “agile”…

The thing that worries me about all those buzz is that it’s all partial. I’m not crucifying people but its what to expect: If the writer is a Windows user, it’ll provide an article about Windows environment softwares and practices. (You can keep reading, this is not a Windows vs Linux post)

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