https://www.softwarecraftsperson.com/tags/unix/ Recent content in Unix on Software Craftsperson https://www.softwarecraftsperson.com/logos/web/png/Color%20logo%20-%20no%20background.png https://www.softwarecraftsperson.com/logos/web/png/Color%20logo%20-%20no%20background.png Hugo -- 0.147.1 en Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:33:00 +0000 https://www.softwarecraftsperson.com/posts/2013-02-06-xargs-saved-my-day/ Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:33:00 +0000 https://www.softwarecraftsperson.com/posts/2013-02-06-xargs-saved-my-day/ <p>So I was doing my regular job, writing new queries to test out my team&rsquo;s new databases on Vertica. And suddenly my senior manager sends out an email to all in the team asking an estimated disk space requirement for each of our work. I had to find out how much space the raw data files for a complete history that were used to load my databases occupy on disk.</p>