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Created January 28, 2011 21:45
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This simply prints out the number of files and amount of space they are taking up. This can be useful for determining what is eating up all your hard-drive space.
#!/bin/bash
#
#
printf "%s %s %s\n" "There are `find "$1" -type f | wc -l` regular files" \
"taking up `du -sh "$1"|awk '{print $1}'` space" \
"in folder "$1""
exit 0
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