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Delete caches and save disk space
Authored by: macgruder on May 01, '06 09:53:01AM

$ du -k ~/Library/Caches/ | sort -n

Great for spotting where that space is going

(you may need to sudo it)

$ sudo -k ~/Library/Caches/ | sort -n > du_cache.txt

to get a text file




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How to make display current info?
Authored by: the_webmaestro on May 01, '06 12:49:46PM
I tried this:
    diskspace="du -k `pwd` | sort -n"
Doesn't work...

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How to make display current info?
Authored by: the_webmaestro on May 01, '06 12:54:22PM
I meant to add, that I want to add something like this to my ~/.bashrc:
alias diskspace="du -k `pwd` | sort -n"

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How to make display current info?
Authored by: regulus on May 02, '06 10:42:51AM

just use a . (ie. period) in place of pwd... and no quotes. FYI: in unix the . stands for the current directory and a .. stands for the parent directory.



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How to make display current info?
Authored by: macgruder on May 03, '06 09:06:54PM

It's easier than that!

du -k | sort -n

du defaults to the present directory



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