I need to find the largest files in a directory & it's subdirectories.
I'm not sure what options on ls -l will work to give me this. or is there another way to do this?
Thanks,
igidttam

For example, to show the 10 largest files under /somedir and it's subdirectories:

Cheers
ZB

ZB

I'm getting an error. xargs| Child killed with signal 13.
How would I get around this?
Thakn You for your help!
igidttam

I changed the code a little to this
find /cep -type f -print | ls -l | head
It worked, but not sure I have all the files in the subdirectories.
Can someone help me here?

Thanks
igidttam

if you know what files are supposed to be there and /cep is the directory off of the root directory / you want to search
will show you all the files you are looking at

does in fact give me the biggest files. You would use

Thanks Jim! This works, but only gives me the largest files in that directory [in my example the /cep directory]. I'm also looking for the largest files within each of the subdirectories of that directory. For example, I want the 10 largest files of some directory and the 10 largest files of each subdirectory under that directory. How do I do that?

Thanks,
igidttam

I go t it to work. I needed the ls -lR.

Thanks Jim