joec@Morgan.COM (Joe Collins) (10/18/89)
Does anyone know of a program which would scan your hard disk, floppy, etc and sort ALL files by size, data, etc? Sample usage might be: MYPROG c: -size -2 (sort by size, show 2 biggest) C:\Command.com 23210 C:\data\c.source 19100 Why? If I have a harddisk which is getting crammed, I would want to know which are the biggest files for erasing or crunching down, etc. Thanks, joec@morgan.com
kiy@pte.UUCP (Kevin Young) (10/19/89)
In article <451@ringwood.Morgan.COM> joec@Morgan.COM (Joe Collins) writes: >Does anyone know of a program which would scan your hard disk, floppy, etc >and sort ALL files by size, data, etc? ... > >joec@morgan.com If you have the MKS Toolkit (which I highly recommend), you can use the find command. A line something like: find c: -size +200 -print will give you all files > 200 blocks (1 block = 512 bytes). You could also mix in the ls (directory list command) with the -s option: find c: -exec ls -s {} ; | sort which would give you the block size followed by the file name for all files sorted by ascending block size. Hope this helps! Kevin -- >|< Kevin I Young uunet!edsews!pte!kiy Precise Technology & Electronics, Inc. Custom Automated Test and Measurement Equipment for Industry Old Saying: "If you can't do it in real time, then don't do it at all" - me
fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) (11/14/89)
In article <3004@pte.UUCP> kiy@pte.UUCP (Kevin Young) writes: >In article <451@ringwood.Morgan.COM> joec@Morgan.COM (Joe Collins) writes: >>Does anyone know of a program which would scan your hard disk, floppy, etc >>and sort ALL files by size, data, etc? ... > >If you have the MKS Toolkit (which I highly recommend), you can use the >find command. There is also a version of find which was written by Russ Nelson (of Clarkson fame). I haven't seen it here on the net and haven't noticed it in the grape archives at Clarkson (haven't looked very hard!), but I found it kicking around on a local BBS system a couple of years ago. I had been looking for a unix-like find, and was glad I found it! Fred