Linux Interview Questions: - What is the command for finding the highest
memory occupied file in Linux?
# du –ah / | sort –n
–r | head –n 1
Option Explanations :-
- du – estimate file space usage
- -a – write counts for all files, not just directories
- -h – print sizes in human readable format (eg. 1K 234M 2G)
- sort – sort lines of text files
- -n – compare according to string numerical value
- -r – reverse the result of comparisons
- head – output the first part of files
- -n – number of lines
