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From: Philip Reynolds <phil@redbrick.dcu.ie>
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Subject: Re: [ILUG] find the biggest file
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Inn Share's [shareinnn@yahoo.com] 22 lines of wisdom included:
> 
> Hi,all:
> 
> Does anyone know how to list the biggest file in my
> root directory?or the second biggest ..etc...
> 
> Because I want to find out what is the reason cause my
> root all most full.

$ find /dir -name \*  | xargs du -s | sort -n

Smallest files are listed first with the largest at the end. So if
you want to get the 5 largest files, pipe through tail.

e.g.

$ find /dir -name \*  | xargs du -s | sort -n | tail -5
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