Recursively find top 20 largest files (> 1MB) sort human readable format

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | sort -hr | head -20

Search for files and list the 20 largest. find . -type f gives us a list of file, recursively, starting from here (.) -print0 | xargs -0 du -h separate the names of files with NULL characters, so we're not confused by spaces then xargs run the du command to find their size (in human-readable form -- 64M not 64123456) | sort -hr use sort to arrange the list in size order. sort -h knows that 1M is bigger than 9K | head -20 finally only select the top twenty out of the list

Sample Output

64M	./icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache
23M	./fonts/extra-fonts/arialuni.ttf
22M	./libpinyin/data/bigram.db
21M	./fonts/cjkuni-uming/uming.ttc
20M	./anthy/anthy.dic
18M	./mythes/th_en_US_v2.dat
17M	./fonts/wqy-zenhei/wqy-zenhei.ttc
14M	./icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache
14M	./icons/Faenza/icon-theme.cache
8.3M	./cracklib/pw_dict.pwd
6.2M	./mm-common/doctags/libstdc++.tag
6.2M	./libhangul/hanja/hanja.txt
5.4M	./icons/Mist/icon-theme.cache
4.8M	./gir-1.0/Gtk-3.0.gir
4.8M	./dict/linux.words
4.4M	./gir-1.0/Gtk-2.0.gir
4.3M	./anthy/zipcode.t
4.0M	./fonts/un-core/UnDotumBold.ttf
3.9M	./opencc/simp_to_trad_phrases.ocd
3.8M	./tor/geoip

By: flatcap

2012-03-30 10:21:12

du find head sort xargs sort find du xargs head,

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Recursively find top 20 largest files (> 1MB) sort human readable format

from my bashrc ;)
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find . -mount -type f -printf "%k %p\n" | sort -rg | cut -d \ -f 2- | xargs -I {} du -sh {} | less

bashrc · 2012-03-30 07:37:52 3

What Others Think

Too new for my system :o sort -hr sort: invalid option -- 'h' Try `sort --help' for more information.

bashrc · 650 weeks ago

@bashrc: Really? Sorry, it's been in Gnu sort since 2009 (v7.5).

flatcap · 649 weeks and 6 days ago

@flatcap: On RedHat/CentOS 5 this doesn't work.

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