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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Good evening.
because the folder has thousand of files it takes too long and have some trouble to get the largest files and then compress files or delete it, for instance
find . -size +10000000c -exec ls -ld {} \; |sort -k5n | grep -v .gz
The above commad took an hour and i have to cancel... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: alexcol
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2. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
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... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: malk71
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file 1.txt with the below contents.
-----cat 1.txt-----
1234
5678
1256
1234
1247
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I have 3 more files in a folder
-----ls -lrt-------
A1.txt
A2.txt
A3.txt
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The contents of those three files are similar format with different data values... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: realspirituals
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have two text files like this:
file1.txt:
133 10
133 22
133 13
133 56
133 78
133 98
file2.txt:
158 38
158 67
158 94
158 17
158 23
I'm basically trying to have awk check the second largest value of the second column of each text file, and cat it to its own text file. There... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: theawknewbie
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
What is the best way to find the largest files in a directory? I used du -k|sort -rn |less.
I got a results for this. But if I used the following command , I got another result...a different order in the same directory. Why is that?
ls -la |awk '{print $5," ",$9}' sort -rn|less. I saw that... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Pouchie1
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
i am on linux 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4smp , and i would be very greatfull
if someone could help to find the largest files on that server.
I know i can find files with find command or list them with ls ,
but is there a way that i could list let's say 10 biggest files on server ?
:o (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: tonijel
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
How to find the list of 5 largest(size wise) file in current directory?i tried using
ls -l | sort -t " " -r +5 -6 -n | head -5
but this is not giving correct output as ls -l command gives 1 extra line of output that is how many total files are there!so by running the above... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: salman4u
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hello all.
i would like to be able to find the names of all files on a remote machine using ssh.
i only want the names of files, not directories
so far i'm stuck at "du -a | sort -n"
also, is it possible to write them to a file on my machine? i know how to write it to a file on that... (2 Replies)
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9. Filesystems, Disks and Memory
I'm trying to find the 50 largest file in a directory named /sasdb and its' subdirectories. I'm using the find command and a pipe to awk
Not sure if I'm actually getting the largest files from this directory and its subdirectories. Here is the code I used...
find /sasdb -ls | awk '{print... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: igidttam
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need to find the largest files in a directory & it's subdirectories.
I'm not sure what options on ls -l will work to give me this. or is there another way to do this?
Thanks,
igidttam (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: igidttam
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