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02-09-2006
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Traversing a file system
I'm pretty new at this UNIX stuff, and this may be a simple question but I'm kind of stuck
 Let's say I have a large directory structure of .essay files, where I saved all of the essays that I did over the last few years. Not all of the .essay files are in the same directory (all in the same root, but different subs). I wants to find out which 10 essay files use up the most disk space. Apparantly there is a one line command that I could run to find out? I think it's supposed to involve 'du' Help pleeease! Pat 
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02-09-2006
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U said the answer urself...
use..
du -a | sort -rn | head -n 10 you can use this if you want to omit the directory list obtained above du -a | grep '.*\..*\..*' | sort -nr | head -n 10 Last edited by KayYesVee; 02-10-2006 at 07:28 AM.
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