[Hidden-tech] Mac Tech question

[Lili Dwight]

A really sweet Open Source tool I use is "Grand Perspective" - it's a 
great visual representation of yr data use
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net

Peace,
Lili

Gary King wrote:
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> The unix findtool can also do this. On OS X use should be able to use 
> spotlight for better response time.
>
> Gtg
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> On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk at bio.umass.edu> 
> wrote:
>
>>  ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's 
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>>
>> Jeff Rutherford wrote:
>>> Can someone answer this question for me. My hard drive is quickly 
>>> filling up, and I need to delete files, documents, etc. to free up 
>>> space.
>>>
>>> How can I search across my entire hard drive (not just specific 
>>> folders) and sort files by the file size? So I can easily find the 
>>> largest files on my machine wherever they may be.
>>
>> how are you with unix tools?
>>
>> open a window in the terminal application. then enter:
>>
>> du -k /  2>/dev/null  |  grep  '^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'  |  sort -n  
>> |  less
>>
>> that ought to do it, though you might have to tweak it a bit to suit 
>> your fancy. It also may take a little while to respond, since it 
>> can't do the sort until it has all the results. But, it will result 
>> in a list of all the files on your system that are larger than a 
>> megabyte sorted by size. The largest ones will be at the end, where 
>> you can see them without scrolling up.
>>
>> If you want to tweak that, you can make the first 0-9 into 5-9 and 
>> only get things that are 5M or larger. Or you can add another [0-9] 
>> and get only things that are 10M or larger.
>>
>> Use that for reference as you browse through a finder window and 
>> decide what to toss.
>>
>> Have fun.
>>
>>
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