Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,

On one of my UNIX boxes, there are many folders. I'm looking for a way / command that will search for and display folder names / location / size so I can do some cleanups.

How can I do this?

Try running "du -a |sort -r -n >sorted.list" from / as root

It will give you a list of all files and directories sorted in descending order by size.

Thanks. That worked. But is the size in MB or what? How can I get it in GB?

Try the -B option of du command

Code:

du -BG -a | sort -r -n

Jean-Pierre.

If you read the man page (man du), you will find the simple option for that. It would have been a lot less work for me to just tell you, but you should have checked it yourself, and this isn't the forum to ask everyone to do your thinking for you.

I apologize if you somehow didn't know about the "man" command, or honestly forgot to actually try looking for the answer yourself instead of asking to be spoon-fed. But considering how little work it would have taken, I'm assuming you're just lazy.

ShawnMilo

Not Lazy, just new to UNIX. I am aware of the "man" command, just simply forgot about it. Thanks tho.

Well then, welcome to the wonderful world of *nix! You'll find that some man pages are helpful, and some not so much, and there's not much you can do about it.

But when it comes to getting info out of your fellow geek, you can greatly increase your expected bounty by asking a question in a way which shows you've put thought, work, or both into solving your own problem.

Also, I don't know if it will help you much in the near-term, but try out the "apropos" command as well. It might lead you to some commands you will find useful. Having said that, I usually go straight to Google if I can't figure something out in about five minutes on the command line. Even if that doesn't result in the answer, I can at least say "I tried x and it didn't work. What's the right way?"

Shawn