Comments on: How do I find the largest top 10 files and directories on a Linux / UNIX / BSD filesystem?

By: Tihamer

Tihamer — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:08:31 +0000

Notafan wrote:
@winfan… how do you do this in windows? you don’t :P

Well, actually, there *is* cygwin (unix commands for Windows systems)
http://www.cygwin.com/

notafan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:54:50 +0000

@winfan… how do you do this in windows? you don’t :P

webmaster@@@@@@@@@@@ — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:39:44 +0000

great job !!!!!!!!!!!

sridevika lover — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:38:52 +0000

thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

beez — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:31:14 +0000

Winfan, I read this page wondering how to do these things in Windows — can you post instructions? Thanks!

Winfan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:04:51 +0000

No wonder windows rule

rschu68 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:46:13 +0000

find . -type f -print0| xargs -0 ls -s | sort -rn | awk ‘{size=$1/1024; printf(“%dMb %s\n”, size,$2);}’ | head

! -print0 for filenames with spaces …
(and xargs -0 combined)

yanokwa — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:22:46 +0000

this is what i use. for i in G M K; do du -ah | grep [0-9]$i | sort -nr -k 1; done | head -n 11

RudyD — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:06:17 +0000

If you set du to human readable I think it will not sort the way you really want.

For the above problems. I would like to find a way to list only the last level directories’ sizes.

(I want to filter somehow this:
/home
/home/user
/home/user/mail

I just want to see the lasts of the tree!)

TIA!

–
R

Benjamin Schmidt — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:32:23 +0000

Human readable version:

for X in $(du -s * | sort -nr | cut -f 2); do du -hs $X ; done