Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

#!/bin/ksh
find /home/other -ls -type f -xdev | sort -nrk7 | head -2 >bigfile.txt

The above is my script, which writes the large file into a file called bigfile.txt. My script contains only the above two lines.
after execution i am getting the output like
find: cannot chdir to </home/usr/some> : Permission denied
find: cannot chdir to </home/usr/some1> : Permission denied
2 16 drwxrwxrwx 122 rampsys system 16384 Jan 30 04:00 /amex/ramp/usr_work
1980 8 drwx------ 3 svidwa sas 8192 Jan 28 11:03 /amex/ramp/usr_work/SAS_wo

First two lines are the directories to which i am not having access. ok
then see the next two which i am getting is also a directory, but in find command i has given - type f. Then why it is displaying directories.

My target is, have to display the largest files alone and that to be redirected to a file. Not a directory.
Please guide me.

looks like it's barfing on the order of your find options

try :

Code:

find /home/other -type f -ls -xdev | sort -nrk7 | head -2 >bigfile.txt

i.e. swap the -type f and the -ls switches