how much space are my .isos taking up?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Wed Oct 31 11:23:35 UTC 2018


On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:50:40PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 October 2018 22:47:30 Dave Stevens wrote:
> > I was surprised when I ran "locate .iso" to see twenty or so in the
> > list. Does anyone know a handy way to get a listing with file sizes?
> 
> Try something like this:
> 
> #> ls -l `locate *.iso`
> 
> Note that those are backticks, below the tilde on a US keyboard. They 
> contain the response from locate, backfeeding to the ls -l.

More robust against file names containing spaces:

  locate -0 .iso | xargs -0 ls -ld

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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