I like this script a lot; very handy. It was taking too long on some of my larger directory trees, though, so I took the liberty of speeding it up. The following does the sorting in Perl, and also calculates the sum internally to eliminate the '.' from the du call. This saves du from having to walk the directory tree twice (once for '.' and once for the individual '*' arguments) and sped things up a lot for me. 
    #! /usr/bin/env perl
    open(DU, "du -sk *|") || die "Can't exec du:  $!\n";
    while (<DU>) {
       ($size, $inode)=split;
       chop($size);
       $sum += $size;
       push @entries, { size => $size, inode => $inode };
    }
    close(DU);
    @entries = sort { $b->{size} <=> $a->{size} } @entries;
    foreach $e (@entries[0 .. 10]) {
       printf("%30s | %5d | %2.2f%%\n",$e->{inode},$e->{size},$e->{siz
+e}/$sum*1000);
    }

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Thanks for a cool script!

In reply to RE: RE: What's eating all your disk space? by knight
in thread What's eating all your disk space? by hawson

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