Finding Large Files 2

[darfader]

Hi,

I am using this to locate large files

ls -l | sort -n +4 | tail -9

however, it only reports from the current directory

I piped it to find. but without success

Is there a way to fine the top nine largest files from a directory and it's sub-directories,


tia,

 

[PHV]

You can try something like this:

find . -type f -exec ls -l {} \; | sort -n +4 | tail -9

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[fredericofonseca]

man find

The find command has an option to search for files bigger than a specified amount. Look for it.


Regards

Frederico Fonseca
SysSoft Integrated Ltd

http://www.syssoft-int.com

 

[darfader]

thanks chaps

 

[CaKiwi]

To find all files over a specified size, use

find . -size +10000 -print

CaKiwi

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