Pithy Nothingness

[kubicle]

a) doesn't look quite right, but
b) it does get the maximum amount of useful information in the least (reasonably) possible space. (it actually saves one line)

Why do you need the "title" line at all, the numbers are kind of self-explanatory? (You could even trim it down to showing only the "use%" of the filesystems, that's basically the only "useful info" in it).

[Don B. Cilly]

True but... even though it's not strictly "useful information", I try to sort of "strike a balance"...
Look, I got it to "look good", it prints the header at the top, and if I mount other partitions it doesn't make a mess - the other hack did (it was a late-night hack).



True that I "lose" the line again, but... it's not too bad ;·)

I could have just:
/dev/sdc2 96G 13G 78G 15% /
/dev/sdc3 101G 9.2G 87G 10% /media/not/K20

etc., without the header, but I'd have to think :·)
Wasted energy... ;·)
And, especially in cases of seldom-mounted partitions, it's not a bad thing to know what the size and actual use are, so just having the % is a bit... poor.
I have the horizontal space anyway, and it would look a bit... blank.
About the horizontal space... it's also true that things like /media/not/K20 become /media/not , but... striking balances with font sizes, alignments and all... it's good enough for me.

[EDIT] The whole shething looks like this, so... it does "fit" :·)

[Don B. Cilly]

From the "Keyboard gypsies of Southern Europe" chapter:
"Well, somewhere in the Black Mountain Hills of Ibiza, I met a young guy called Ricky Teaspoon.
He had a little pop-up terminal in the dock. Looked like this:



I said, man, why would you want that when you have a KRunner just an Alt-F2 away?
He said, well that won't let me do aliases and stuff..."

[Don B. Cilly]

From the "Taurocoprography and other idle pastimes" chapter:

- See, my young apprentice, when I was your age, we didn't use no GUIs, it was all black-and-white text.
Some commands being a bit long and complicated, we used aliases.
One of the first aliases I made on my servers was "ll" for "ls -la".
Not because it was long or complicated, but I just used it so often... of course now that alias is a preset default on most distributions.

So now I change it to "ls -lah". Where the h is for "human readable". It returns the size in KB, MB, etc, instead of just bytes.
So instead of having, for example:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 450560 Jan 1 2000 somedata.db
you would have:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 440K Jan 1 2000 somedata.db
which is easier to read... for humans :·)