Move biggest files to another dir

command

##### Some linux commands to move biggest files


# Move 6 biggest files of current dir to "bigfiles" dir

ls --sort=size | head -n 6 | xargs -I{} cp {} ../bigfiles


# Only files with filename length of 14:

ls --sort=size ./??????????????  | head -n 595 | xargs -I{} cp {} ../bigfiles


# Move 500 biggest files but starting at offset 12000 (means 500 biggest files after the 12000th biggest file)

ls --sort=size ./??????????????  | tail -n +12000 | head -n 500 | xargs -I{} cp {} ../bigfiles


# Number of files in dir

 ls -l . | egrep -c '^-'