FSLS - List big files in file system - (nf)

[Jim Budler]

In article <168 at eneevax.UUCP> phaedrus at eneevax.UUCP (Praveen Kumar) writes:
>>>From: sja at ih1ap.UUCP (Steve Alesch)
>>> > THIS PROGRAM FINDS LARGE FILES IN A GIVEN (BSD) FILE SYSTEM
>>> > ===========================================================
>>> > 
>>...
>>> I don't know about BSD, but I use the following command on my 3b2
>>> (System V) for clearing out big files on the disk:
>>> 
>>> find / -size +nnn -print
>>> 
>>> Where nnn is the cutoff point in blocks (512 byte blocks).  To better
>>> simulate the fsls command describe above, one could type
>>> 
>>> find / -size +nnn -exec ls -l {} \;
>>
>>You can bury the machine this way!!!!  It's incredibly more efficient
>>using xargs(1) instead.
>>
>>	find / -size +nnn -print | xargs ls -l
>>
>>Sorry, but this is one of my pet peeves.
>>-- 
>>
>>Steve Alesch	AT&T
>>(312)510-7881, ...!ihnp4!ih1ap!sja
>>
>>
>
>Well, xargs doesn't exist in the BSD universe.  I looked for it on
>our Pyramid and our Vax 785 running 4.3 - it wasn't on either.  However,
>our Masscomp (which is a dual universe machine) does have it.
>
>pk
 phaedrus at eneevax.umd.edu or {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!phaedrus

For your information, the header from the public domain reimplementation
of xargs:

+---------------
| From decwrl!decvax!genrad!panda!sources-request Thu Feb 20 17:45:44 PST 1986
| 
| Mod.sources:  Volume 3, Issue 106
| Submitted by: seismo!amdahl!gam (Gordon A. Moffett)
| 
| Here is a reimplementation of the System V utility xargs.  I haven't
| heard any complaints about it, though [1] There is room for improvement
| regarding the command buffer size (tho' it is better than the System V
| area in that particular regard) [2] It does not have all the features
| of the System V version (as the man page points out).
| 
|                                Gordon A. Moffett
|                                {ihnp4,seismo,hplabs}!amdahl!gam
| 
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