UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Nope, your command just sorts the name of the file.

This is where it would help to know what Operating System and version you have.

We need to use the list of filenames to get the size of the file, then sort on the field containing the file size. A generic response (assuming that the size field is the 5th field in "ls -la") would be:

Code:

find "${dir_name}" -type f \( -perm -u+x -o -perm -g+x -o -perm -o+x \) -exec ls -lad {} \; | sort -n -r -k 5

Yes. This will sort.