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[Dotan Cohen]

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?


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