[NTLUG:Discuss] Finding huge files...

[Steve Southwell]

oops, copy and paste problems...  The $ on line 4 should be a backtic: `

Steve Southwell wrote:

> Odd thing happened to me yesterday... One of my clients' Apache 
> servers just bombed, and SSL wouldn't run, but normal http would.  As 
> it turned out, the ssl_engine_log had hit the 2GB limit.  It took me 
> awhile to find out what happened, so I wrote this little script to 
> find the largest files on the filesystem.  I'd be interested in 
> feedback or improvements, or perhaps I'm missing some sort of built-in 
> command to do this...
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # findbig.sh - Find the largest files on the filesystem
> cd /
> for line in ` du -a -b 2>/dev/null| sort -g -r |head -n 200| sed 
> s/^[0-9]*s*//g$
> do
> if [ -f $line ]; then
>    echo `du -h $line`
> fi
> done
>
>
>

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