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Old 07-31-2007
Haiiiiiiiiii sorting problem in unix
Hai ,

In unix we are going to sort it out all the directories and files based on size of the file. For that we have to use this command ls -al | sort
+4nr. If we are giving this command means it will show all the records in a descending order....when I am checking one file bytes its showing 96 bytes......But I checked inside that file its having so many sub files and sub directories.Its showing 10000 bytes like that. There is a mush difference between this..Now I waana sort out files based on actual size of all directories and files....
# 2  
Old 07-31-2007
Sorting problem
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Hai ,

In unix we are going to sort it out all the directories and files based on size of the file. For that we have to use this command ls -al | sort
+4nr. If we are giving this command means it will show all the records in a descending order....when I am checking one file bytes its showing 96 bytes......But I checked inside that file its having so many sub files and sub directories.Its showing 10000 bytes like that. There is a mush difference between this..Now I waana sort out files based on actual size of all directories and files....
# 3  
Old 07-31-2007
how about this ! Smilie

Code:
find . -name '*.*' -print | xargs ls -l | sort +4nr

# 4  
Old 07-31-2007
Try:

du -a |sort -r -n
# 5  
Old 07-31-2007
Nope this is also giving the same result
Hai friend
This is also giving a same result what ever I used command ls -al | sort +4nr.......My problem is its not sorting out all the sub files and sub directories .When its sorting that file size is different and when I am entering in to that file that file size is different. That sorted file size is not a actual file size......................please help me friends...............
 
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