Use the "du" command.  You will need shell access to do this.  Assuming you want to track down space used...

Here's a simple find command which executes a gzip on each result.  Just put {} where the resulting files should...

Try this: cat /proc/cpuinfo Note - there are some other useful files in /proc: /proc/devices - lists devices such as...

Oh, the dreaded ^M - these usually occur when uploading files from a windows system, using ascii mode.  Some Windows...

Often times it's useful to mirror data from a production server to your local computer, or another server.  I've done...

This problem is becoming more of an issue because so many mail server anti-SPAM techniques check for proper "HELO" settings...

On some Linux systems, a built-in firewall known as "iptables" is enabled.  This keeps novice or lazy users from opening...

Some ftp servers limit how many files will display as the result of an "ls" command.  This is to limit...

When you are extracting data from a tar archive, sometimes you want to relocate the files, here's the way to...

On a unix / linux system run this command: # ls -lt This will list the files in the current...

Here are some unix find command examples to for finding and excluding files, running commands, etc. 1.  Find files and exclude...

The netstat command is useful to see who's making connections on your server.  This can be useful if your server...

Some linux systems come with a default firewall turned on - you can see the list of rules being enforeced...

Sometimes you need to tar up a large amount of data, and the resulting file is just too big.  Here's...

You can exclude files or directories from a tar file like so: tar -cvf x.tgz /home/user/ --exclude "/home/user/logs" ...