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Old 08-24-2005, 01:18 PM   #1
mehesque
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Need quick 1-line script help.

I would like it to work with RHEL3, but the more portable the better.

I want a line that would sort and print out the 10 or 20 largest files in my whole system.

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Old 08-24-2005, 01:56 PM   #2
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This works in debian:

du -ba|sort -bfn|tail -n 20 (or 10, if you wish)
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Old 08-24-2005, 02:18 PM   #3
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How about:
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find / -type f -print0  | xargs -0 ls -l | cut -d " " -f "6-" | sort -rbfn | head -n 20
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