Shell command line

I am a pc programmer. What is the shell command for listing all of the files in the hard drive on by size order and piping them to a log file (or, in finder, how can I list all of the files in the hard drive by size order)?

du |sort -nr > ~/desktop/sort.txt
will put the list on the desktop
It will list everything starting in the directory you are in.
There are many ways to do this.
for other options:
man du
man sort
man ls
Also for questions like this I suggest the Unix forum here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735

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Inputting non-visual characters from the shell (command line)

is it possible to capture user input from the command line (using System.in or any other available method) that contains characters that are not printing characters and are not legal in a java.lang.String? i.e. is it possible to write a program that recognizes the arrows and CTRL, SHIFT, and ALT keys as input without using graphical (Swing or AWT) classes in the program?

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How we run command line commands in oracle

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Is there a DATE.EXE or a DIR.EXE program that you can execute on Windows?
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Command line parameters and Shell Script -- URGENT

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