Linux Commands

Useful Linux Commands

Disk

gives you a quick overview of what disks are mounted and how full they are.

df -h

This is give you a total size of the directories under where this command was run and sorts by size. Warning can take a long time.

du -hsx * | sort -rh | head -10

List of files

This always works (show file size in bytes)

ls -s

This is a SLES alias of the above

l

This shows the file size in human readable values (K,M,G)

l -h

Download a file

Download the Latest Version of Retain

wget "http://download.gwava.com/download.php?product=Retain&version=current"

Find a file

find / -name "httpd.conf"