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Old 10-19-2008
Find and display largest file on system
What is the correct command for finding and displaying the largest file on the system?

I don't know how to specify "largest" with "find", and pipe that to something that will display the file contents. Or should I be using cat, more, less, ls, or something else?
# 2  
Old 10-19-2008
BASH shell, I'm using the Bourne-Again shell.
# 3  
Old 10-20-2008
Are you looking for something like below ?

cat `ls -l|sort -n +4|tail -1|awk '{print $9}'`
# 4  
Old 10-20-2008
Code:
find . -ls | awk 'BEGIN {s = 0; f = ""}
$7 > s {s = $7; f = $11}
END {print f}'

Assumes GNU find.
Last edited by geekosaur; 10-20-2008 at 01:59 AM.. Reason: whoops, that won't work without updating "s" as well
# 5  
Old 10-20-2008
below command will list the largest file[file and directory] in current folder where you issue below command

Code:
ls -l | sort -n +5 |tail -2 | head -1

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