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To: Inn Share <shareinnn@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [ILUG] find the biggest file
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Inn Share wrote:
> 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.
> 
> The system is Solaris 8 Sparc.
> 
> Thanks !!!

I think everybody has their own version of this,
but in case it's useful.. (only tested on Linux):

find $* \( -type f -o -type l \) -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -print0 |
xargs -r0 du -b --max-depth 0 |
sort -k1n |
grep -v "^0"

Pádraig.




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