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The mail server had a separate 80GB partition just to hold email; and it was completely filled. The queue directory contained such a preposterous number of files that wildcards such as ? and * could not expand. That meant there was no immediate way to list only the Sendmail “q*” files, which would have contained some clue as to what went wrong.
The Great Cascade - The Daily WTF
How much of a geek am I? I was reading this humorous but true story, saw this passage, and immediately thought:
ls | grep '^q' | xargs ls -l
That’s how much.
