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Old 10-17-2008
Quick question about finding a large file
what is the correct command for finding the largest file and displaying it without any error information?

I can find it, but how do I display it in the same command?
# 2  
Old 10-17-2008
You want to display the file on the screen? Like 'cat/less/more file'? It would help if you post the command you're using. Anyway, If you have a command outputting the biggest file, just your-command | xargs cat
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Old 10-17-2008
it doesn't matter which command, I just want to find and display the contents of the biggest file without any other information.

cat, ls, find, more, or less aren't exactly doing that with | xarg cat
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Old 10-17-2008
use this code in ur desire dir :-
Code:
 
 more `find . -type f -exec du -a {} \;|grep -v '\/.*\/'|sort -n|tail -1|awk '{print $2}'`

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Old 10-19-2008
#find / -xdev -size +100000 -exec ls -l {} \; | sort +4n | more
# 6  
Old 10-19-2008
Another one without using sort...

Code:
find -name "*" -type f | xargs ls -ltrS | awk 'END{ print $NF }' | xargs cat

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Old 10-19-2008
I figured finding and displaying the largest file on the system would be a small and simple command that actually finds and displays only the largest file on the system.
 
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