Comments on: Find large files in multiple directories

By: Kevin Pendleton

Kevin Pendleton — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:27:02 +0000

And for files with spaces in the middle of names on solaris (top 20 files): find . -type f | while read filename; do du -sk "$filename"; done | sort -n | tail -20

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:49:45 +0000

Xargs will solve the “Argument list to long” problem, info is here they can explain it better then I can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs

By: Brandon Checketts

Brandon Checketts — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:40:03 +0000

This takes a while to run, but try

du -mxS / | sort -n | tail -n 40

I can’t remember where I picked that up, or what each of the options are, but it gives your the 40 largest directories on the system.