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edited Mar 6, 2018 at 2:45

As we know, ls -S will list all files ordered by size.

What I'm trying to do is to list all files in the directory /usr ordered by size. So I executed the command as below:

find /usr -type f -exec ls -lS {} \;

However, it doesn't seem that this command listlists all files ordered by size... -S doesn't work here.

As we know, ls -S will list all files ordered by size.

What I'm trying to do is to list all files in the directory /usr ordered by size. So I executed the command as below:

find /usr -type f -exec ls -lS {} \;

However, it doesn't seem that this command list all files ordered by size... -S doesn't work here.

As we know, ls -S will list all files ordered by size.

What I'm trying to do is to list all files in the directory /usr ordered by size. So I executed the command as below:

find /usr -type f -exec ls -lS {} \;

However, it doesn't seem that this command lists all files ordered by size... -S doesn't work here.

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asked Mar 6, 2018 at 2:34

ls -lS on the output of find doesn't sort the output

As we know, ls -S will list all files ordered by size.

What I'm trying to do is to list all files in the directory /usr ordered by size. So I executed the command as below:

find /usr -type f -exec ls -lS {} \;

However, it doesn't seem that this command list all files ordered by size... -S doesn't work here.

find ls sort