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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook, Second Edition Don't neglect the shell – this book will empower you to use simple commands to perform complex tasks. Whether you're a casual or advanced Linux user, the cookbook approach makes it all so brilliantly accessible and, above all, useful.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162742
Length 384 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Shell Something Out FREE CHAPTER 2. Have a Good Command 3. File In, File Out 4. Texting and Driving 5. Tangled Web? Not At All! 6. The Backup Plan 7. The Old-boy Network 8. Put on the Monitor's Cap 9. Administration Calls Index

Monitoring disk usage


Disk space is a limited resource. We frequently perform disk usage calculation on storage media (such as hard disks) to find out the free space available on them. When free space becomes scarce, we find out large files to be deleted or moved in order to create free space. In addition to this, disk usage manipulations are also used in shell scripting contexts. This recipe will illustrate various commands used for disk manipulations with a variety of options.

Getting ready

df and du are the two significant commands that are used for calculating disk usage in Linux. The command df stands for disk free and du stands for disk usage. Let's see how we can use them to perform various tasks that involve disk usage calculation.

How to do it...

To find the disk space used by a file (or files), use:

$ du  FILENAME1 FILENAME2 ..

For example:

$ du file.txt
4

Note

The result is, by default, shown as size in bytes.

To obtain the disk usage for all files inside a directory along with the...

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