What do I need to do if I want to list all the files (not directories) and their size, with their sizes sorted from largest to smallest? I tried find . -type f -exec ls -Shl {} \; but it does list the files in order (of their size). Anyone can help??
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Suky Zhang
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https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/53737/how-to-list-all-files-ordered-by-size – mechanical_meat Feb 13 '20 at 21:15
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2Try `find . -type f -printf '%k %P | sort -g` – jordanm Feb 13 '20 at 21:41
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Use + instead of \;.
find . -type f -exec ls -Shl {} +
\; calls ls once per file whereas + calls it a single time with all the matched file names.
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1The `+` does not process all files, well that depends on how much files is there to process. With the `+` find will process as much files as possible while avoiding `argmax` see https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax/ You know the error that says `list arguments too long` see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11289551/argument-list-too-long-error-for-rm-cp-mv-commands – Jetchisel Feb 13 '20 at 21:35