Find the Largest Files in a Directory — biggest_files • EcoacousticUtilities

Recursively searches a directory and returns the N largest files by size, with human-readable size formatting.

Usage

biggest_files(root_dir, n = 10, pattern = NULL, ignore_case = TRUE)

Arguments

root_dir: Character. Path to the root directory to search. Must exist.
n: Numeric. Number of largest files to return. Default is 10.
pattern: Character. Optional regex pattern to filter files by name. Default is NULL (no filtering).
ignore_case: Logical. Whether pattern matching should be case-insensitive. Default is TRUE.

Value

A data.frame with columns:

size_human: Human-readable file size (e.g., "1.5 MB")
size: File size in bytes
mtime: Last modification time as POSIXct
path: Full file path

Returns empty data.frame if no files are found.

See also

Other audio: analyze_call_properties(), check_clips_on_disk(), convert_to_wav(), find_duplicate_wavs(), print.training_dataset_summary(), quarantine_clips(), training_dataset_summary()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Find 20 largest files in a directory
big_files <- biggest_files("/path/to/directory", n = 20)

# Find largest WAV files
big_wavs <- biggest_files(
  "/path/to/audio",
  n = 10,
  pattern = "\\.wav$"
)
} # }