Viktor Pilpenok wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 VP> Hello Roy!

 VP> 29 Jan 04 04:05, you wrote to Wayne Chirnside:

 WC>>  When I start coding HTML it'll be straight of a standards
 WC>> compliant reference book using a simple text editor.

 RT> That's the way I've been doing it here.  Nothing fancy,  mind you,
 RT> but enough to help me organize the info I've got on hand.  I just did
 RT> a "du /var/www" and there's quite a pile of it there -- the last
 RT> number showing up being 445862, and I think they're talking about 1k
 RT> blocks?  Over 400 meg?  Jeez...

 VP> 1k*445862 = 445 _GB_ - Nice hd you've got there ;)

Heh.  I wish...

 VP> Try using "du -h" - it outputs the size in a human readable form. 

Ok,  trying that,  and there's all sorts of stuff scrolling by...

And scrolling...

And the last line says 436M!  Still quite a pile there.  1813 lines worth, 
piping the command into wc -l tells me.

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