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How do I know which files are the largest in my account?
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[Modified Tuesday, Dec 3rd 2013 by sdesk86]

ENCS provides a simplified facility to check disk quota consumption. Simple enter the following command from any Linux shell.

bigfiles
Usage of bigfiles:
bigfiles [-n number_of_files] [directory_name] number_of_files number of files you want to display (e.g. bigfiles -n 5 will only display the 5 largest files.
directory_name only look in the specified directory.

On non ENCS Linux systems, the following command has a similar effect:

find . -type f | perl -lne 'printf "%8d %s\n", (stat)[7], $_' | sort -nr | head -n 20
Account disk quota can be checked from the ENCS User Quota page.


 
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