The simple dir /S command from c:\ will give you all files and directories from c:\ all the way through the drive and will sort from largest to smallest running through each directory. You can filter using /A if you’d like to restrict by hidden, system, archive files, read only files etc. and passing the output to another windows command if you need to further restrict or search in the files for something like “show me all the files on my hard drive over 6MB that contain the word ‘log’ from largest to smallest.”

/O will Specify the sort order for the files with the S after it sorting by file size (smallest first) putting the – in front of the S reverses the order.

| more – you’re a unix dude, you should know what this means…

But if someone is doing some cleanup through their harddrive, this is the simple command I’d start with.

Just a note about the cockyness or us Unix admins (as I happen to be one now)
Not everyone that uses windows started using it with a mouse kid!!! Also not everyone who prefers windows is not cross-platform… We were running 64 bit clustered NT boxes on RISC processors at Digital Equipment Corporation with failover and failback in 1996 brother. Don’t believe me? Find a really old copy of Windows NT ver 3.51 open it and you’ll see two folders NT and Alpha.

The Department of Veterans Affairs had no problems with ever needing to reboot a “lousy unreliable windows box” because the Intel platform itself was the problem, not windows. We ran Alpha on 64 bit RISC processors and it was just as reliable as any Unix box or Mainframe we had. I had a Jensen Alpha running an exchange server for 5 years, and we only rebooted it every 6 months for giggles…

Windows machines are made to be used by the masses which means more dumbasses can kinda run one. A good Admin is a good Admin, no matter what platform. Be nice and be helpful or don’t post.

needs to have the exec altered

find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk ‘{ print $8 “: ” $5 }’

Also, I find this output easier to read

find . -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk ‘{print $5″: “$8}’

thanks alot and keep it up.

In XP, press F3 or go Start->Search. Choose “All files and folders”, then “More advanced options”, then “What size is it?”, then specify a size.

du -xak . | sort -n | awk '{size=$1/1024; path=""; for (i=2; i 50) { printf("%dMb %s\n", size,path); } }'

It lists all files or directories bigger than 50MB (just change size>50 to alter that) in the current directory (change the “.” to a directory path to specify another one) in a friendly, human-readable way and happily plays with spaces (I used it on an NTFS mount in fact).

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

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

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