used space .. ls command? This one ..

[someone_4]

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

[James R. Ferguson]

Richard:

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

...JRF...

[someone_4]

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?

[Andrew_4 · Accepted solution]

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

[Andrew_4]

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

[federico_3]

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

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

ll -R | sort -n +4.0