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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sort top 5 files by FileSize Post 302238268 by Tytalus on Friday 19th of September 2008 11:59:15 AM
Old 09-19-2008
Code:
 find . -exec ls -l {} \; | sort -nr +4 | sed 5q

 

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