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I want to short descending all the files according to their size.Please help me..

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Hi,

Code:

man ls
man find
man sort

Have a look at the manual-pages to find out what options are available, yours may differ from the ones I use.

If all files are in the same directory use

Code:

ls -lS

To list all files in this and all subdirectories use

Code:

find . -ls |sort -k7 -rn

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