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Old 02-09-2006
Traversing a file system
I'm pretty new at this UNIX stuff, and this may be a simple question but I'm kind of stuck Smilie

Let's say I have a large directory structure of .essay files,
where I saved all of the essays that I did over the last few years. Not all of the .essay files are in the same directory (all in the same root, but different subs). I wants to find out which 10 essay files use up the most disk
space. Apparantly there is a one line command that I could run to find out?
I think it's supposed to involve 'du'

Help pleeease!

Pat
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Old 02-09-2006
U said the answer urself...
use..
du -a | sort -rn | head -n 10

you can use this if you want to omit the directory list obtained above
du -a | grep '.*\..*\..*' | sort -nr | head -n 10
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