[Techtalk] Making room for Oracle

Maria Blackmore mariab at cats.meow.at
Thu Nov 28 13:37:00 EST 2002


On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Mary wrote:

> Or you could pipe through "sort -n" which won't reverse the results,
> meaning that the largest results will be at the bottom of the output and
> you won't have to scroll up far. If you only want to see the X largest,
> piping it through "head" or "tail" as appropriate works nicely too.

I was thinking that if you pipe it into less, then you get the biggest
results at the top, which is where less starts off :)

YMMV :)

have a play with some plumbing

Maria




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