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Old 04-11-2006, 05:07 AM   #1
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Biggest File Within Directory

how do you figure out or list the largest file within a directory?

Say I have a have a directory that has 100,000 files then how could I figure out which files it the largest?
 
Old 04-11-2006, 05:24 AM   #2
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Use ls -S. Largest comes first.
 
Old 04-11-2006, 05:30 AM   #3
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Something like the following should do it:
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ls -Sl /home/ftp/pub/Linux/Slackware/slackware-current | grep -v '^total' | head -1
 
  


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