From 1e12ab9c8e262c16b2953c0701424cd5e751f156 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Koeritz <cak0l@virginia.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:35:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] shows disk usage summaries if GB or above in size

---
 scripts/files/show_just_biggies.sh | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 scripts/files/show_just_biggies.sh

diff --git a/scripts/files/show_just_biggies.sh b/scripts/files/show_just_biggies.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..782ab15e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/files/show_just_biggies.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# iterates through the directories or files passed on the command line and does a summary disk usage, but only the
+# things measurable in gigabytes, terabytes, or larger are shown.  the smaller items are just omitted (so anything
+# measurable within megabytes, kilobytes, and bytes, as decided by the human-readable du command.
+
+for dir in "${@}"; do
+  du -sh "$dir"  2>/dev/null | grep -v "^[ 0-9.]*K\|^[ 0-9.]*M\|^[ 0-9.]*B" 
+done
-- 
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