[olug] Unix Tip: FINDING THE LARGEST FILE

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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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