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Howto: Find the largest directory/file in a directory

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Started by Guest_ptt3_* , Jan 23 2007 11:38 AM

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Posted 23 January 2007 - 11:38 AM

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I needed to do this earlier and just learned so I thought I would share:

# du -ha /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10

-a : Include all files, not just directories (du command)
-h : Human readable format, display data in 1K, 2G (du command)
-n : Numeric sort (sort command)
-r : Reverse the result of comparisons (sort command)
-n 10 : Display 10 largest file. If you want 20 largest file replace 10 with 20. (head command)

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Posted 23 January 2007 - 12:31 PM

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This little command always comes in handy when I need to know where my space is gone. Glad to see others are using it as well.

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Posted 27 May 2007 - 05:02 PM

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This will come in handy, thanks for the post!

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Guest_Jordan_*
Posted 28 May 2007 - 12:38 PM

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Thanks for the post!

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Posted 28 May 2007 - 01:08 PM

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No problem, if I find anything else I'll let you know.
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