| TASK | COMMAND | |
|---|---|---|
| FILESYSTEMS | Triple click selects all, cut/paste to terminal | |
| TOP 10 | Largest ten files/directories in filesystem, sorted by kilobyte-size | du
-ao /filesystem | sort -n | tail |
| Largest file in your personal directory | du -sk * .??* | sort -nr | more |
|
| TAR | tar all files in the current directory to STDOUT (Solaris) | tar cvf - . |
| ..and gzip it | tar cvf - . | gzip > file.tar.gz | |
| ..gzip and delete the original | tar cvf - . | gzip -9 > filename.tar.gz | |
| tar more than one directory (not trees) | tar cvf - . -C /dir1 -C dir2 |
|
| indiscriminantly tar everything in a directory by listed file extension (improves compression) | tar cvf - `ls | sort -t. +1` | gzip > file.tar.gz | |