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Find which Debian packages use up your space

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A simple shell command line to get the top space users in Debian

From http://perldition.org/blog/view/what_package_is_eating_up_my_disk_space__04_10_06_23_18_05_

grep-status -nsInstalled-size,Package -F Status ' installed' $STATUS \
  | perl -p00l12 -e 's/\n/ /' \
  | sort -rn \
  | head --lines=$LINES
by Nigel Sim last modified 2006-04-21 11:35

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