[SLUG] Re: Largest file

[Al Girling]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 11:56:52AM GMT, Bob Garrood wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Al Girling wrote
> 
> "On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 11:25:04AM GMT, John Allsopp wrote:
> > > 1: Is there a command to tell me the largest file within a filesystem
> > > hierarchy (from here downwards)?
> > 
> > ls -RSs seems to help, but doesn't collect it all together.
> 
> How about:
> 
> 
> $ du -ha <path/to/directory> | sort -n"
> 
> This has odd effects.

I bet it does!  Adding a '"' to the end of the command like that means
the shell waits till you complete your command.

>                        How about:
> 
> du -a <path/to/directory>  |sort -gr

Are you sure about this?  When I try this I see a list of files starting
with the top directory I'm listing rather than a specific file within a
hierarchy.

Perhaps this is what John was asking for and I misunderstood.

Toodle pip,

Al

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