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@thingsiplay Nicely done, I like it!
For years, I've been using a similar(?), very simple script I'd banged together. I made it originally to track down a few out of control log files, and later changed it up for a general space freeing overview.
df -h $1 && du -ha "$1" |sort -hr |head -n25
I like the header of it. But it would be in the way of the output, if its piped to another program... unless the header is output to stderr. :-) A command with biggest to replicate a similar output to your (former?^^) du command would be
But its not exactly the same output. Just comparing them for fun and curiosity. Edit: Oh I forgot inline code will always translate ampersand to & , unless its a block code format. More Edit: Never mind, it doesn't even work like that...