how to find largest file?

Answer Posted / phani

Eg:- we need to find /tmp filesystme large files , this
command will give all large files::
find /tmp -size +200 -exec -ls -s {} \; |sort -nr |more
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(root): ls -lstr|head -1
total 112
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: ls -l | sort +4 -nr | head -1
dr-xr-xr-x 11 root bin 8192 Oct 4 2007
SUNWexplo
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: ls -ls|sort -nr|head -1
16 drwxr-xr-x 25 appw app 8192 Aug 4 14:45 appw2
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: du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10
6054872 /var
2150598 /var/sadm
2108022 /var/sadm/pkg
2077238 /var/crash
2077220 /var/crash/cmfciohqapp01
2072560 /var/crash/cmfciohqapp01/vmcore.0
1182398 /var/tmp
282530 /var/sadm/pkg/VRTSvxvm
282454 /var/sadm/pkg/VRTSvxvm/save
276332 /var/tmp/J2SE_Solaris_10_Recommended
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