Running a command from .profile?

[dbee]

So i have exported my git profiles to .profile so i don't have to remember the directory every time from an emacs bash shell

I have a computer with very little hd and i run this command a lot ...

 du -a <dir> | sort -n -r | head -n 20

basically, it ranks folders in '/' in order of size.

I want to run this command by just typing ...

$SIZE /var

where the $SIZE command would run the command above, and the '/var' would be the directory variable.

Looked on google. And in the emacs docs. can't find a solution. Any old hands out there know a little bash scripting and can help me out?

[Keith_Helms]

Add this to your .bashrc file

rank() {
    du -a "$1" | sort -n -r | head -n 20
}

Then you can just type

rank /some/directory/path

If you don't like "rank", call the function whatever you want

[dbee]

Excellent thanks Keith.

That's easy.

I want to mark this thread solved but can't on android

[QIII]

"Thread tools" -> "Mark this thread as solved" does not work?

[QIII]

That just worked fine for me on my phone.