Unix Tip: FINDING THE LARGEST FILE

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Unix Tip 2987 - April 11, 2010

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FINDING THE LARGEST FILE

Did you ever fill up a filesystem and want to know what large files are consuming the space. This will sort the largest files, top to bottom.

find /var -mount -ls -xdev | /usr/bin/sort -nr +6 | more

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