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Disk Usage in GB and Unix command to find the biggest file/folder
Hi All,

Please help me out

1) Command to find the disk usage in GB. I know that du -k will give in kilobites.

2) How to find the Biggest file/folder in a given set of files/folders.

Thanks in advance

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1) Command to find the disk usage in GB. I know that du -k will give in kilobites.
read the manpage of "du" and you may find the switch "-h" (some older os versions don't have "-h"!).

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2) How to find the Biggest file/folder in a given set of files/folders.
you have to write a script to sort the files or maybe "find" has a solution to sort the files... read also the manpage of "find".

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1) Command to find the disk usage in GB. I know that du -k will give in kilobites.
check if this works for you:
Code:
du -kh
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2) How to find the Biggest file/folder in a given set of files/folders.
try this
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du -sk * | sort -nr | more
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Hi All,

Thanks for your valuable inputs.

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Try to du -g -s *


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` du -g -s * ` or ` du -kh * ` work under HP-UX.
' du -sk * | sort -nr | more ` worked a treat.
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