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Linux Find Out How Much Each Folder Is Taking Up

By Cody Swartz | Published: May 17, 2015

NCurses Disk Usage This tool will allow you to see how much disk space each directory is using. It will run from which ever current directory you are running it from. It is really useful to find out where your disk space is going and what is using it. From the site http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu Ncdu is […]

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Linux Delete Directories or Files By Name

By Cody Swartz | Published: April 18, 2014

The Code Explanation We use the find command in the current directory(.) to search for a name starting with 2013- followed by anything, which is of type d for directory. We then pipe (|) the found directories over to the xargs command which runs the remove command (rm) with the options of recursive (r) and forced […]

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Linux Tar, Zip, Gzip Matching Files In Current Directory

By Cody Swartz | Published: April 16, 2014

The Code   Explanation We use the find command with “.” as the current directory we’re in, so I used “cd” – change directory to where I wanted to zip up files. The -name parameter is then finding any thing starting with “2013-“ followed by anything else via the “*” wildcard.  The “-type d” restricts the […]

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