Filed under: iPhone | Linux Evolution dot org and the NSLU2 2010-12-26T18:50:23-05:00 orvtech http://linuxevolution.org http://linuxevolution.org/ NanoBlogger Find the biggest file or folder inside a directory. orvtech http://linuxevolution.org/archives/2010/05/18/find_the_biggest_file_or_folder_inside_a_directory/index.html 2010-05-18T10:57:05-05:00 2010-05-18T10:57:05-05:00

By using the `du` command we can find the biggest file or directory inside a folder. The next example shows how to list the 10 most biggest files and floders inside 'HOME' 

du -a ~/ | sort -n -r | head -n 10

If we use the `find` command we can list the 10 biggest files inside a directory, even if they are inside sub-folders. 

find ~/ -type f -exec ls -ls {} \; | awk '{print $6"\t"$9}' | sort -k1 -n -r | head -n 10