Ugh! Yep, you're right, my bad... only, the code is too long for my liking. Can it be shorter? Could I use the operating system to pare down the code a bit by pre-gathering a list of all files? Something like 

my @files = (reverse sort `dir /A-D /S`)[0..9];

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In DOS, or ... (big pause)...
Aw shoot, in DOS the solution isn't even perl:
dir /A-D /O-S /S

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That recursively lists all files from the current working directory on, sorted by largest file first. I imagine there's a combination of opts to ls that will do the same thing, eh? Maybe 
ls -alSR  (which doesn't sort across directories)
ls -alR | sort -k 5  (maybe?)
(Except those don't suppress the directory names.  Hmmm.)

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Sorry, I meant to write perl, but it came out rather OS-specific... but it's a lot smaller than the perl solution. Is that Appeal To False Laziness?

In reply to Re: Re: Re: finding top 10 largest files by rje
in thread finding top 10 largest files by bfdi533

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