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used space .. ls command? This one ..

someone_4 — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 21:07:24 GMT

Would anyone happened to know the ls command that will list all the files in a directory and sub dir
from biggest to smallest
thanks

Re: used space .. ls command? This one ..

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 21:12:53 GMT

Richard:

The command you want is 'du'. Pipe the output to sort. See the man pages for a full description.

...JRF...

Re: used space .. ls command? This one ..

someone_4 — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 21:32:24 GMT

I tried that .. that is a great command I didnt know about..
I used ls -lR and that works too
I am going to try to resort that data too.
Anyone else have any sugestions?

Re: used space .. ls command? This one ..

Andrew_4 — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 22:57:55 GMT

Try this the a command (it will find all the files under whatever directory, you specify, and sort them by size) :

find / . -xdev -type f | xargs du | sort -rn | more

Andrew

Re: used space .. ls command? This one ..

Andrew_4 — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 23:00:01 GMT

Also,

The above command is useful when files systems fill up... It can tell you what your biggest files are, so that you can consider removing them !!

Great for those /var filessystem fulls !!

Andrew

Re: used space .. ls command? This one ..

federico_3 — Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:05:59 GMT

Try :

quot : it displays the number of 1024-byte blocks in the named FS that are currently owned by each user

diskusg: it generates disk accounting information from data in files

du : it gives the space allocated for all files and directories . ( "du -sk filesystem " will give you the total used space in KBs for filesystem)

bdf : it displays the total space, the free one and the percentage for each FS .

federico

Re: used space .. ls command? This one ..

Carlos Fernandez Riera — Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:37:15 GMT

ll -R | sort -n +4.0