UNIX Challenge

fearlessfreap24 · Feb 14, 2012

I had this challenge in my class. No one got it and it took the 2 instructors a week to figure it out:

in one command line (pressing enter only once)

make a file that contains the largest file in your home directory and every directory in your home directory.

Post your answers.

Have fun!!!

RavingMac · Feb 14, 2012

fearlessfreap24 said:
I had this challenge in my class. No one got it and it took the 2 instructors a week to figure it out:

in one command line (pressing enter only once)

make a file that contains the largest file in your home directory and every directory in your home directory.

Post your answers.

Have fun!!!

I'm betting on Van to get this one . . .

Dysfunction · Feb 14, 2012

Hrm, it took them a week to figure it out?

for i in $(find ~/ -type d 2> /dev/null); do du -h $i; sort -rn|head -1; done

RavingMac · Feb 14, 2012

Like I meant to say . . .

Razormac said:
I'm betting on Mike to get this one . . .

vansmith · Feb 14, 2012

Razormac said:
Like I meant to say . . .

You were right the second time. That one's a little beyond me at this point. I would have to spend some good time working that one out.

fearlessfreap24 · Feb 14, 2012

very close, I either didnt let it run it's course or it did not make a file and it only list the directories and their sizes.

Dysfunction · Feb 14, 2012

Opps, I typoed.

whaddya expect for nothing more than a few seconds of typing

Actually, looking at it... it'll post up the directory... so...

for i in $(find ~/ -type d 2> /dev/null); do du -a $i |sort -rn|head -2|tail -1; done

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