Check a group of files used space, you can specified the directory for checking.

Run multiple commands consequently

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October 3rd, 2006 mysurface

By specified terminator ( ; ) like in C/C++ programming, you can run multiple commands consequently. We usually want to do this when we want to compile and install source code for certain packages.
./configure;make;make install
Bash first execute the configure, then make , consequently will install the package. But bare in mind, bash have no intelligent, [...]

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checking disk space using df and du

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August 31st, 2006 mysurface

The common way to check for all partition disk space, how much is still remain, you can simple use
df -h
Usually I will put -h to make it size human readable.
Another good tools to check the disk space for directories, we use du. You may realized that when you type ls -l, the size of every [...]