On Wed, 12 May 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 12 May 2010 01:46, Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com> wrote:
> > when i used to have quotas, i used to run this in $HOME :
> >
> > du -s .[A-Za-z0-9]* * | sort -nr | head
> >
>
> Although the regex is nice for removing . and .. it will fail for
> directories in non-latin alphabets. I have lots of those! But why is
> that even necessary, why not simply "du -s *"? What trick am I
> missing?
the *proper* RE for selecting all hidden objects but omitting . and
.. is, of course:
$ echo .[^.]*
thank ya, thank ya very much. i'm here all week.
rday
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