Not quite what you wanted, but to get the largest files or directories in the current directory in order, you can use:
du -cks * |sort -nr |head -n15 This came from one of the O'Reilly UNIX books if I recall correctly. They suggested you alias it to 'ducks' for ease of typing. /james Ben Donohue wrote: > Voytek wrote: > >> I'm trying to find a specific file withing a web tree, what the way to >> do it: >> >> I tried this with no luck >> >> # locate /home/domain.org.au localconf.php >> only to get >> find: localconf.php: No such file or directory >> >> >> > Further to this (and this is not an answer to the question above) but > I'm buggered if i can find the largest files on the hard disk and list > them in order. > I've tried various arguements but can't seem to crack it. > like find / -S -r (or -s) -name xxx|more > > Any ideas out there? > Ben > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
