Largest file in a directory 1

[jie]

I would like to ask if there is a command to find the largest file in a directory?

Thanks in advance

 

[Boria]

Hi Jie,
try command
ls -o|awk '{print $4, $8}'|sort -n -r|head -1

regards Boris

 

[DSMARWAY]

hi,

you can use the find command and -size option to list files
which are greater than the -size flag e.g.

find directory -type f -size +3000 -ls

-size is in 512 byte blocks


HTH

 

[jie]

thanks guys .... for your response