N-Largest-Files

KSH Script that finds the N largest files in the given folders.

To execute this script you must change file permissions by typing this in your console:

sudo chmod +x n_largest_files.sh

You can give other permissions (766, 644, etc).

After that, let's execute the script by typing this:

n_largest_files.sh

This will show the 10 largest files contained in current directory.

To show as much files as you want, execute this command:

n_largest_files.sh -NUMBER  # Where NUMBER is any number greater than 0

Example:

n_largest_files.sh -7

To find the largest files contained in a directory (or more than one):

n_largest_files.sh -5 folder1 .. folderN

There are more options such as show results in 'Human readable numbers', Bytes, Kilobytes and Megabytes, or sort in order. To make use of this, run this command:

n_largest_files.sh -3 -X folder1 .. folderN # Where X should be replaced with (h:human, b:bytes, k:KB, m:MB, s:sort)