Linux Commands for 99 Bottles of Beer and Disk Space | Linux Today

Linux Commands for 99 Bottles of Beer and Disk Space

Written By
CS
Carla Schroder
Nov 5, 2010

“Linux server admins need good scripting skills and command-line
chops, but who says they can’t be fun? Learn Bash Karaoke with 99
Bottles of Beer on the Wall, quickly find disk hogs, and display
used/free disk space.

“I haven’t had time to finish setting up my Arch Linux backup
server to do automatic wakeups, backups, and shutdowns, so here are
some fun command-line hacks instead.

“99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall

“How about a bit of geek Karaoke? Just copy and paste this into
a Bash session, and it will look like this:”

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CS

Carla Schroder

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