Jeff Epler's blog

4 April 2012, 12:54 UTC

dusub: Subtract two 'du'-style listings

Life is a constant war against the limited size of backup media. Here is my next weapon in the fight: dusub. Save a du listing today, then find out tomorrow or next week what's been growing:

dusub olddu newdu

or

du … | dusub olddu

Positive numbers in the output represent an item that grew since olddu; negative numbers represent a decrease in size since olddu.

Version 2 knows about "du -h"-style listings.

dusub is useful with sorttop:

du … | dusub olddu | sorttop

Files currently attached to this page:

dusub-v2.py	2.4kB
dusub.py	1.4kB

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