If I am looking for quick wins i find "du --max-depth=1 | sort -rn" always a nice way to find the directories that have the biggest impact on disk space. (Often a lot of small files in part of the file hierarchy are what fills disks)
Regards, Martin Martin Visser ,CISSP Network and Security Consultant Consulting & Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone: +61-2-9022-1670 Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail: martin.visserAThp.com This email (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify HP immediately by return email and then delete the email, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the information in it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julio Cesar Ody Sent: Friday, 15 April 2005 12:29 PM To: James Ballantine Cc: slug@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [SLUG] finding a file A little bit lazy to figure how to get full paths, but clean and simple: $ ls -RShl just the size and filename: $ ls -Shl | awk '{print $5 " " $8}' no directories, just the size and filename: $ ls -RShl | grep -v '^d' | awk '{print $5 " " $8}' there's probably easier ways to do it, but that's my 2 cents. On 4/15/05, James Ballantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Julio C. Ody http://www.livejournal.com/users/julioody/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
