Unix Tip: ANOTHER SORT BY FILE SIZE

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Unix Tip 3313 - March 6, 2014

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ANOTHER SORT BY FILE SIZE

To sort certain files in the directory and to show
the biggest file first, do

$ du -a | sort -n -r | more



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