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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Script to find the files and delete them Post 302597369 by rbatte1 on Friday 10th of February 2012 05:30:54 AM
Old 02-10-2012
Have a look at the find command. Assuming that your users' home directories are all in /home, you could try:-
Code:
find /home -type f | xargs ls -l | sort -bn +4

This will long list off every file (assuming that the user can read all the directories) then sort them on size. Just check that the byte value is indeed in column 5 (skip 4 columns on the sort)

If it just gets too big a list, grow you command to:-
Code:
find /home -type f | xargs ls -l | sort -bn +4 | tail -50

to hopefully just get the important chunk, i.e. the largest 50 files.


Does that help?

If I've missed the point, let me know and I will think again.




Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
 

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