largest size directory in unix

arunkumar_mca · September 16, 2005, 8:06am

I want to find the which directory under a directory occupy the maximum size is there is any command to find please help

blowtorch · September 16, 2005, 9:02am

Some pointers: check man pages for df and sort. You should be able to figure it out then.

odashe · September 27, 2005, 3:32pm

Try du and sort.

blowtorch · September 29, 2005, 10:29am

Oops.. df and du... really sorry for the mixup!

linuxpenguin · September 29, 2005, 2:48pm

what unix are you using?

check bdf for hp-ux

blowtorch · September 30, 2005, 1:04am

I use SunOS and HP-UX. I said that I mixed up with df and du: the OP wants to find the directory with the largest size and the code for that is

du -sk *|sort -nr

I mistakenly told the OP to check man pages for df and sort, while I should have asked the OP to check man pages for du and sort.