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Data and Technology

Posted on November 27th, 2006

Written by cliff

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commands, computing, directory, directory sizes, disk, foreach, HowTo, linux, quota, repquota, server, size, sort, storage, unix, users

Using Sort to List Directories by Size

If you manage a UNIX system with a large number of directories that vary in size, chances are that you’ve needed to figure out which ones are using up the most disk space. Of course if the directories are user accounts, the best way to do this is to enable quotas and use the “repquota” [...]
Data and Technology

Posted on January 17th, 2006

Written by cliff

Tags
foreach, grep, ls, shell, syntax, tcsh

Foreach Example in tcsh

I always forget the foreach syntax. Here is a quick example that reads all the contents of a directory into an array, prints out the name of each file, runs a simple grep on it, and ends.
foreach i ( ` /bin/ls * ` )
foreach? echo $i
foreach?/bin/grep your_grep_string $i
foreach? end