[K12OSN] 100 Largest Files
Calvin Dodge
caldodge at gmail.com
Sun May 18 18:21:15 UTC 2008
2008/5/18 Mel Wade <mel at melwade.com>:
> Is there a way to scan a hard drive and list the 100 largest files using the
> command line in Linux?
find / -mount -type f -print0|xargs -0 du -s >/root/$$.sort;sort -n
/root/$$.sort|tail -n 100
(-mount keeps it from searching /proc and the like)
This is piped to a temporary file because xargs will cut the filename
list into 128 KB chunks.
calvin
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