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Display files by size by http://felicity.me.uk/ on Apr 28, 2008 02:08 PM

For example, to display the 20 largest files owned by joe:

find / -printf "%k\t%p\n" -user joe | sort -n | tail -20
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FIFOs Are Great by xinu on Jan 12, 2005 10:52 AM

If you want to tail the errors on another terminal, just push them to a fifo:

$ mkfifo pgerror
$ psql -U user dbname < ./dbfile 2> pgerror

On your other terminal:

$ tail -f pgerror

Voila! STDOUT on the main terminal, and STDERR on the secondary.

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Save and View Pipe Stream by xinu on Mar 10, 2005 01:37 PM

You can use the tee program to save the contents of a pipe to a file while also viewing it on standard out:

# tail -0f /var/log/httpd/error_log | tee ~/newest_errors.txt

Note: tail -0 instructs tail to begin at the very end of the file (the default is to show the last ten lines), and -f means tail will periodically check the file for additional data and print the data to standard out.

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