find largest file - Shell Programming and Scripting

mohan705 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007

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

lorcan · #2 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007

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.

Code:

du -ms * | sort | tail -1

mohan705 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007

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

lorcan · #4 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007

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

ramnayakam · #5 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007

Try using the following command,

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

Thanks,
Seetharaman

mohan705 · #6 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007

Hi,

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

Thanks,
Mohan

ramnayakam · #7 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007

Can you just tell me if there is any problem if the file size is larger???

Thanks,
Seetharaman

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