Comments on: Quickly find the largest files in a directory http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/26/quickly-find-the-largest-files-in-a-directory/ News, tips, software, reviews, and more for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad Thu, 24 May 2012 13:09:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: frank http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/26/quickly-find-the-largest-files-in-a-directory/#comment-98539 frank Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:47:20 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=1185#comment-98539 You may also want to check out the bigfiles command line tool to get the largest files within a given directory: bigfiles -h time -p bigfiles -n 40 ~/ see: http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1888 You may also want to check out the bigfiles command line tool to get the largest files within a given directory:

bigfiles -h

time -p bigfiles -n 40 ~/

see: http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1888

]]> By: hypnopixel http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/26/quickly-find-the-largest-files-in-a-directory/#comment-97439 hypnopixel Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:39:38 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=1185#comment-97439 $ du -xak ~/ 2> /dev/null | sort -nr | head -n 40 will list the 40 heaviest files in your home directory $ du -xak ~/ 2> /dev/null | sort -nr | head -n 40

will list the 40 heaviest files in your home directory

]]> By: Princeton Macintosh Users’ Group Blog » Blog Archive » Listing the largest file or sub-directory in the current directory http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/26/quickly-find-the-largest-files-in-a-directory/#comment-97432 Princeton Macintosh Users’ Group Blog » Blog Archive » Listing the largest file or sub-directory in the current directory Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:44:03 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=1185#comment-97432 [...] OS X Daily posted a tip on how to find the largest file in a directory.  I have my own that uses the du UNIX utility.  The du utility displays the file system usage statistics for each file and directory argument. To use it, type du in a Terminal window. The first column of output is the number of bytes and the second column is the directory path and file. If you run this utility in a directory with lots of files a lot of stuff will scroll off the screen. Not very useful. [...] [...] OS X Daily posted a tip on how to find the largest file in a directory.  I have my own that uses the du UNIX utility.  The du utility displays the file system usage statistics for each file and directory argument. To use it, type du in a Terminal window. The first column of output is the number of bytes and the second column is the directory path and file. If you run this utility in a directory with lots of files a lot of stuff will scroll off the screen. Not very useful. [...]

]]> By: Listing the largest file or sub-directory in the current directory — Island in the Net http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/26/quickly-find-the-largest-files-in-a-directory/#comment-97431 Listing the largest file or sub-directory in the current directory — Island in the Net Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:25:50 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=1185#comment-97431 [...] OS X Daily posted a tip on how to find the largest file in a directory.  I have my own that uses the du UNIX utility.  The du utility displays the file system usage statistics for each file and directory argument. To use it, type du in a Terminal window. The first column of output is the number of bytes and the second column is the directory path and file. If you run this utility in a directory with lots of files a lot of stuff will scroll off the screen. Not very useful. [...] [...] OS X Daily posted a tip on how to find the largest file in a directory.  I have my own that uses the du UNIX utility.  The du utility displays the file system usage statistics for each file and directory argument. To use it, type du in a Terminal window. The first column of output is the number of bytes and the second column is the directory path and file. If you run this utility in a directory with lots of files a lot of stuff will scroll off the screen. Not very useful. [...]

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