hi, how can i find the largest file in my current directory? thank phgct

Hi: There's lots of ways of doing this. This find command delivers the five largest files in the current directory: find . -follow -mount -type f -print | xargs ls -l |\ sort -r -n -k 5,5 | head -5 Regards, Nails

hi Nails, when i using the command that u give me, the error message showing out the "xargs: unmatched single quote" what is this mean ? how to solve this proble? thank chui phgct

this find large files and directories ls -l|sort +4 -n|tail -5 on linux ls -lS|head -6 or du -s *|sort -n|tail -5

Hi: The "unmatched single quote" error doesn't make much sense since there's no single quotes in the find command I've posted. Two issues: 1) Are you aware that the "\" character at the end of the first line is a continuation character? This command works with "\" only if there's a carriage return immediately after it. 2) Do you have weird characters in the file names - especially spaces. If you have file names with spaces, you might try this command: find . -type f -print | while read myfile; do echo "${myfile}"| awk '$NF >= 2' ; done Regards, Nails