Get the 10 biggest files/folders for the current direcotry

ls -1rSA | tail

This will only work on files since ls won't tell the size of a directory contents. Note that the first switch is the digit one, not the letter ell.

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By: rbossy

2009-10-27 15:34:59

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Get the 10 biggest files/folders for the current direcotry
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -s * | sort -n | tail

bambambazooka · 2009-02-05 11:18:43 33
Get the 10 biggest files/folders for the current direcotry
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -sk * |sort -rn |head

realist · 2009-08-19 02:31:30 6
Get the 10 biggest files/folders for the current direcotry

This command simply outputs 10 files in human readable, that takes most space on your disk in current directory.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -sh * | sort -rh | head

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