2012-02-19T16:54:33Z Photos, electronics, cnc, and more Jeff Eplerjepler@unpythonic.net 2012-02-19T16:54:33Z 2012-02-19T16:54:33Z https://gamma.unpythonic.net/01329670473 When I am looking for big disk users, I don't care about all the little items. What would be great is to continuously see the biggest items encountered so far. <p>To this end, I've written a Python program I call 'sorttop'; it continually reads stdin, sorts the first column according to magic (i.e., human numbers like from &quot;du -h&quot; work as expected), and shows the top items read so far. Example usage: <tt>du -hx / | python sorttop.py</tt> <p><b>Update, Feb 20, 2012</b>: Revised the script to work for more terminals; fixes a traceback on the line 'bol = curses.tparm(ti_hpa, 0)' when TERM=screen. <p><p><b>Files currently attached to this page:</b> <table cellpadding=5 style="width:auto!important; clear:none!important"><col><col style="text-align: right"><tr bgcolor=#eeeeee><td><a href="https://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01329670473/sorttop.py">sorttop.py</a></td><td>3.3kB</td></tr></table><p>