Comments on: Linux Contest with a $25 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway – Week 3

By: apokalyptik

apokalyptik — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:19:00 +0000

non recursive:

du -s * | sort -n

recursive:

find -ls | sed -r s/’[ ]+’/’ ‘/g | cut -d’ ‘ -f 7- | sort -n

use -r with sort to get biggest files first

livibetter — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:35:51 +0000

find / -printf “%12s %h/%f\n” | sort -gr

Mahmoud — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:08:03 +0000

du -a * | sort -rn | tail

du -ah would show the sizes in a human readable format but the sort won’t be accurate.

Ben P — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:16:47 +0000

du -a * | sort -rn

Olivers — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:27:09 +0000

The answer is:

du -ah / | sort -n -r

Thanks