Listing the largest files 1

[FlashGorden]

hi

I'm just a beginner in Unix (Solaris). I need to find the 3 largest files on the system and I used the following command;

ls -lR /| sort -n -r -k5|more -3

It almost works but the order is slightly wrong. The R command doesn't seem to work from root.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[grega]

What about ls -lR | sort +4n | tail -3

This will give the 3 largest files, with the largest last.

Greg.