You'll have to find all files on the root device, telling find to exclude other mounted filesystems, and have it report the size in a common format (eg. in kilobytes). Then you can sort that output in reverse, and have head display the first 20 lines. Or, in code:
Hi, all you unix people. I am a pretty advanced windows user, but I am curious about unix. Is there any reason I should attempt to acquire some form of unix for my home computer system? What sort of things is unix useful for? Unix is open source, right? Assuming that to be the case, I infer that... (3 Replies)
hi all,
is there any way how i can output the top 10-30 biggest files for all filesystem?
using du -sh * is quite tedious since i have to move from 1 directory at a time.
thanks (3 Replies)
I think my script is working but i am trying to understand while I am tracing to see if it's realli working..
can somebody please comment.. also. is there different way to write this in shell?
sh -x findbiggestnum 1 2 3
+
big=0
+
big=1
+
big=2
+
big=3
+ echo 3
3
big=0
... (3 Replies)
if i am in /tmp file, and i have a few DIRs under /tmp. i want to find the biggest and most recent files (from 7 days ago) in /tmp and subfolders. (3 Replies)
Hello, can you please help me writing a command that would output the biggest files on my system from biggest to smallest? I want this to print only the files, not the directories.
I have tried
du -a ~ | sort -nr | head -10
However, this also prints out all the directories - which I do... (8 Replies)
bup-drecurse(1) General Commands Manual bup-drecurse(1)NAME
bup-drecurse - recursively list files in your filesystem
SYNOPSIS
bup drecurse [-x] [-q] [--exclude path] [--exclude-from filename] [--profile] <path>
DESCRIPTION
bup drecurse traverses files in the filesystem in a way similar to find(1). In most cases, you should use find(1) instead.
This program is useful mainly for testing the file traversal algorithm used in bup-index(1).
Note that filenames are returned in reverse alphabetical order, as in bup-index(1). This is important because you can't generate the hash
of a parent directory until you have generated the hashes of all its children. When listing files in reverse order, the parent directory
will come after its children, making this easy.
OPTIONS -x, --xdev, --one-file-system
don't cross filesystem boundaries.
-q, --quiet
don't print filenames as they are encountered. Useful when testing performance of the traversal algorithms.
--exclude=path
a path to exclude from the backup (can be used more than once)
--exclude-from=filename
a file that contains exclude paths (can be used more than once)
--profile
print profiling information upon completion. Useful when testing performance of the traversal algorithms.
EXAMPLE
bup drecurse -x /
SEE ALSO bup-index(1)BUP
Part of the bup(1) suite.
AUTHORS
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>.
Bup unknown-bup-drecurse(1)