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# 1  
Old 12-18-2009
Top 5 biggest file
Hi ,
I need to get a list of name and size , of the the top 5 biggest file under the
current directory , in decending order
Thank You
# 2  
Old 12-18-2009
Code:
du -ah . | sort -n -r  | head -n 5

# 3  
Old 12-18-2009
Code:
du -ak . |sort -n|tail -5

Last edited by ichigo; 12-18-2009 at 02:32 AM..
# 4  
Old 12-18-2009
Thanks.

du -ah . | sort -n -r | head -n 5

I seems that its does not take into consideration files that exists under subdirectories
# 5  
Old 12-18-2009
Code:
gnu_find /path -type f -printf "%s|%p\n"|sort -n|tail -5

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