[ale] my 1st shell script - chk big files

[Geoffrey Myers]

Pete Hardie wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:04, Ron Frazier
> <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've written my first Linux shell script as follows and saved it on the
>> Desktop under the name Check Big Files and given it execute permission.
>> I double click on it, the system asks whether to display or run it, and
>> I say run.
> 
> 
> congratulations!
> <sniff>  they grow up so fast these days... :)

+1

> 
> 
>> echo "Files larger than 100 MB starting from /." > file_list.txt
>> echo "Excluding /swapfile, /sys/devices, and /proc." >> file_list.txt
>> echo -n "Computer name: " >> file_list.txt
>> uname -n >> file_list.txt
>> echo " " >> file_list.txt
>> date >> file_list.txt
>> echo " " >> file_list.txt
>> find / -type f -size +100M | grep -v /swapfile | grep -v /sys/devices |
>> grep -v /proc >> file_list.txt
>> echo " " >> file_list.txt
>> date >> file_list.txt
>> gedit file_list.txt
>>
>> It works very nicely, and give's me an instant report on large files in
>> my system.  You guys can tell me if you think anything needs changing to
>> improve it.  Anyone is welcome to use the script for their own
>> purposes.  If you publish it somewhere, give me the credit.  Here's what
>> it does.
>>
>> 1) Delete file_list.txt if it exists.
>> 2) Create file_list.txt and put some headers, the computer name, and the
>> date in it.
>> 3) Find all files > 100 MB in size starting from / and list them in the
>> text file, while excluding /swapfile, /sys/devices, and /proc.
>> 4) Append the date to the end of the file.
>> 5) Display the text file.
> 
> One suggestion I would give is to make this 2 scripts - one that just
> does the work, and a second that calls the first and redirects the
> output, then runs gedit on the result file - that will save you all
> the ">>" output redirects
> 
>> I have a question.  How would I force it to execute immediately, rather
>> than asking if I want to display it or run it?
> 
> One suggestion from a quick Google is to wrap all that in another
> script that does this "gnome-terminal -e <name>) where <name> is the
> script you've written
> 


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Until later, Geoffrey

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