Hi,

1)I have XX directory and have lot of files ,I want to find largest file in that
directory
2)how calculate the size of file in MB.


Thanks,
Mohan

This will bring the largest file in the directory. But if the directory has the maximum size then it would list the directory rather than the files.

I was getting the below error ,OS is HP unix

$ du -ms * | sort | tail -1
du: illegal option -- m
usage: du [-a|-s] [-kbrx] [-t type] [name ...]


Thanks ,
Mohan

My OS is an Linux version one, let me check out for the HP-UX.

Try using the following command,

du -a | sort -n | tail -2 | head -1 | cut -f2

Thanks,
Seetharaman

Hi,

Its working for less file size ,can u explain the syntax.

Thanks,
Mohan

It is working for find the bigger file size in current directory both in HP-UX and in Linux (open Suse). But if there is a bigger sized directory around it will point that.