Which File consuming maximum Size???

linuxshadow · 06-12-2008, 09:36 AM

Can anyone help me with script which will depict which files are consuming maximum size in my linux box??

syg00 · 06-13-2008, 02:24 AM

Do some searching - this comes up all the time. Usual answer is some combination out of ls, du, find and awk
Try this thread for some ideas.

jschiwal · 06-13-2008, 02:24 AM

You can use the find command to locate files greater than a certain size.

find ~/ /var /tmp -type f -size +50M -printf "%b %p\n"

This command will locate all files more than 50 MB in your home directory,/var and /tmp. You could pipe the output through "sort -nr".