[SOLVED] looking for a way to list files sorted by size

mark_alfred · 08-21-2009, 08:28 PM

Hello. I am looking for a way to list files sorted by size, for all files on the computer. I tried with ls, but, while I could sort them according to size, they were also organised by directory. I'd like to simply have one list of all files that is sorted by size, and not grouped by directory.

forrestt · 08-21-2009, 08:54 PM

This works on Fedora, but ls may differ by distro:

Code:

find / -type f -exec ls -l {} \; | sort -nr -k5

You may also want to avoid /proc, /dev, etc. "man find" should help.

HTH

Forrest

p.s. when I say this works, I didn't try with /, I tried from my home directory and used "." instead of "/".

JulianTosh · 08-21-2009, 11:06 PM

du -ba | sort -rn | less

mark_alfred · 08-22-2009, 03:25 AM

Excellent. Both methods work well.

forrestt · 08-22-2009, 09:20 AM

Just remember, the du method will also include directories who's total will equal the size of all the files in the directory including sub-directories.

Forrest