RE: RE: RE: What's eating all your disk space?

I believe your script above has issues:

Why did you chop $size? You are only taking off the last digit. If you meant to take off the metric notation (G, M, or k) you could just s/G|M|k//o
STRICT and WARNINGS!
You have have a percentage multiplied by 1000. I believe you meant 100.
If you want the metric notations (G,M, or k), you will have to do some funny math to get them all to the same measurement (kilobytes).

J. J. Horner
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RE: RE: RE: RE: What's eating all your disk space? by hawson (Monk) on Jul 27, 2000 at 06:32 UTC
To adress each point: That's a goof left over from development. Oops. Fixes the 3rd point you make as well. I agree that using -w and 'use strict;' are excellent things to do. However, I intended this to be used on the command line either as an alias or shell script somewhere in the your $PATH. I want it to be faster, rather than slower. Granted, the differences are small, I admit. Blindly following the dogma of "must use strict and -w all the time" is dangerous, just as blindly following any dogma is. That said, I use strict; and -w almost always. Noted. I've already taken care of this, or did you not see the -k flag I passed to 'df'? This forces df to print it's numbers in 1Kb blocks instead of the system default block size (which is not always 1024 bytes). Since the numbers are in Kb, I don't have to worry about stripping any metrics, and the 'funny math' becomes trivial. Not all versions of 'du' support Linux's -h tag, but they do support -k. In any case, I'll make a few refinments...	[reply]

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That's a goof left over from development. Oops. Fixes the 3rd point you make as well.
I agree that using -w and 'use strict;' are excellent things to do. However, I intended this to be used on the command line either as an alias or shell script somewhere in the your $PATH. I want it to be faster, rather than slower. Granted, the differences are small, I admit. Blindly following the dogma of "must use strict and -w all the time" is dangerous, just as blindly following any dogma is. That said, I use strict; and -w almost always.
Noted.
I've already taken care of this, or did you not see the -k flag I passed to 'df'? This forces df to print it's numbers in 1Kb blocks instead of the system default block size (which is not always 1024 bytes). Since the numbers are in Kb, I don't have to worry about stripping any metrics, and the 'funny math' becomes trivial. Not all versions of 'du' support Linux's -h tag, but they do support -k.