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Old 04-22-2008
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

Regards,
Manas
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Old 04-22-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by manas6
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"!).

Quote:
Originally Posted by manas6
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".

hth,
DN2
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Old 04-22-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by manas6
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

# 4  
Old 04-22-2008
Quote:
2) How to find the Biggest file/folder in a given set of files/folders.
try this
Code:
du -sk * | sort -nr | more

# 5  
Old 04-23-2008
Hi All,

Thanks for your valuable inputs.

Manas
# 6  
Old 04-24-2008
du command
Hi

Try to du -g -s *


Regards
Thembela
South Africa
# 7  
Old 04-28-2008
Neither ...
` du -g -s * ` or ` du -kh * ` work under HP-UX. Smilie
' du -sk * | sort -nr | more ` worked a treat.
 
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