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Good try, but that only sorts them within directories. Files are still grouped by directories first, then sorted by filesize. [At least, not on my win2K, ver 5.00.] -QM

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: finding top 10 largest files
by rje (Deacon) on Feb 04, 2004 at 14:33 UTC
    ++QM

    That's what I get for posting off the cuff. Still, there ought to be a way to leverage such listings for sorting purposes -- the filesize is listed before the filename: all you'd have to do in the DOS world is lop off the timestamps in front and tweak a bit, then perl's sort() should work like a charm. Nice and compartmentalized, yes?
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