Apr
2
2010
Find the largest image file within a directory structure (e.g. largest jpeg on disc)
For our latest project, Urbo.ro, I needed to find the largest image file (.jpg) in a big directory structure with 50,000+ images but also other files in it. Manually searching it would have been impossible. I turned to our Linux ninja, Alexandru Ionica, who came up with the following that I wanted to share:
find /directory/ -iname "*.extension" -printf "%s " -print | sort -n -r | head -n1
This Linux snippet give you the largest file that ends with .extension inside of whichever directory structure you specify. To search the whole file system, just specify /.
