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Display largest files in multiple directories
Trying to locate the 25 largest files with read/execute world permissions to be displayed from a combination of 4 different directories. I'm rather new at UNIX and trying to learn the basics.

This is what I have come up with so far:

find /dir1 /dir2 /dir3 /dir4 -perm -u+rx | sort -nr | head -25

My results seems to be giving me 25 files just from the last directory and ignoring the other 3. Is there a way to display the file permissions from in my results as well? I have been looking at the find man page, but I can't seem to figure this out.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
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