list largest files in a directory & its subdirectories

igidttam · #1 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006

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

zazzybob · #2 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006

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

Code:

find /somedir -type f -print | xargs ls -l | sort -k5,5rn | head

Cheers
ZB

igidttam · #3 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006

ZB

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

igidttam · #4 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006

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

jim mcnamara · #5 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006

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

Code:

find /cep -type f -print

will show you all the files you are looking at

Code:

cd /home
find . -type f -print | ls -l -s | sort -n | tail

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

Code:

cd /cep

igidttam · #6 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006

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

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