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Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫

@sotolf @ctietze @RL_Dane There's a reason I know where every file on my system is by memory; I remove or archive the ones I'm not using anymore! 😂

@benjaminhollon @sotolf @ctietze

Ok, I gotta know:

find ~ -xdev -exec \ls -lad {} + |cut -c1 |sort |uniq -c |sort -n

Paste the output in your reply ;)

@RL_Dane

Took a while. 7mins, it says, but felt like 70.

1 .
3 p
46 s
70834 l
928534 d
5010390 -

@benjaminhollon @sotolf

@ctietze @benjaminhollon @sotolf

8-o

YOU WIN!!!!

GUYS! WE HAVE A WEINER!! ;)

@RL_Dane @benjaminhollon @sotolf

:catjam:

Now I only wish I had more useful info -- like, is this all in the build cache folder or something like that? Not going to tinker with the output with 7min feedback cycles though

@ctietze @benjaminhollon @sotolf

If you've got time to burn, you could try running this one-liner from your homedir that will tell you how many files and subdirectories each directory has:

for x in * .[^.]*; do mountpoint -q "$x" && continue; [[ -d $x ]] || continue; printf "%6d %s\n" $(find "$x" -xdev |wc -l) "$x"; done |sort -n

@RL_Dane @benjaminhollon @sotolf @ctietze

I’m late. But here:

twizzay@debian:~$ find ~ -xdev -exec \ls -lad {} + |cut -c1 |sort |uniq -c |sort -n
     17 l
   3837 d
  48443 -