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Old 04-28-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is online now Forum Staff  
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Code:
find . -name '*.arc' | head ...
but it won't necessarily find the top ten biggest without an extra pipe to sort.
Are you thinking about performance? You've got a decent solution already.