This is a discussion on Find the top 5 big file within the Linux forums, part of the Operating Systems category; The following command will display the top 5 largest file in the current directory and it’s subdirectory. This may take ...
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Rep Power: 1 | 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 |
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Rep Power: 1 | 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 |
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