Hello, I'm very new to perl and am in the middle of a problem.
I'm trying to sort files by largest file in a directory by two groups, either beginning with d1 or d2, along with removing the file size with awk.


Running Solaris
example setup:
directory: /tmp/dir1
files: d1file1.txt(5kb) d1file2.txt(10kb) d1file3.txt(7kb) and d2file1.txt(10kb) d2file2.txt(5kb) d2file3.txt(7kb)
Here is the code: my $var1 = `du -k /tmp/dir1/d1* |sort -rn |head -1 |awk '{print $2}'`

And then I would do the same for the d2 files.

I'm sure there are better/easier ways to do it, but I am trying with what I know the most. (which is not much!)

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