How do I find the third largest file and read first 5 lines

I tried below to get the third largest file

ls -s /file/path | head 3 | tail -1

How do I use this file name to read the first 5 lines and insert to a new file?

CodePudding user response：

You are very close, you just forgot to capitilize -s and you forgot to put dash in front of the number in head 3

ls -S /file/path

That works to output a list of files sorted by size.

head -3

Then you need to put a dash in front of your option for head just like you did with tail -1.

To read a certain number of lines from a file you can use head in the same way and provide it a filename.