write a scwipt that
a) takes exactly one argument, a directory name.
b) if the number of argument is more or less than one,print
a usage message
c) if the argument is not adirectory, print another message
d) for the given directory, print the five biggest files
and the five files that were most recently modified.
e) save the output to a file called q2output.
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Answer / sudhir
for var in `ls -1S` === -S sort the file primary key as
size of the file and -1 column o/p
do
if [[ $i -eq 5 ]]
then
break;
fi
print $var
let i=i+1;
done
Same code can be used for time and ls command option will be
ls -1t
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