philip reynolds wrote inn share s shareinnn yahoo com NUMBER lines of wisdom included hi all does anyone know how to list the biggest file in my root directory or the second biggest etc because i want to find out what is the reason cause my root all most full find dir name xargs du s sort n smallest files are listed first with the largest at the end so if you want to get the NUMBER largest files pipe through tail adding r to the sort options and piping through head instead might be a better idea tail needs to read teh whole buffer head only reads the first n lines cheers dave david neary marseille france e mail bolsh URL irish linux users group ilug URL URL for un subscription information list maintainer listmaster URL 