Thread: Find the top 5 big file

The following command will display the top 5 largest file in the current directory and it’s subdirectory. This may take a while to execute depending on the total number of files the command has to process.

# find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5

Originally Posted by vasudha

The following command will display the top 5 largest file in the current directory and it’s subdirectory. This may take a while to execute depending on the total number of files the command has to process.

# find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5

great ! have you tried this command?how many seconds that it will recover those files? well i guess i had to try this command to find out myself..thanks..its an added knowledge on my part