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sort files in current folder by sizes
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sort-file-size.md

List files in current folder and sort by their sizes.

find . -type f -print0 | du -a --files0-from=- | sort -n

Output example

...
268     ./flaskhost/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_codecs_jp.x86_64-linux-gnu.so
268     ./flaskhost/local/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_codecs_jp.x86_64-linux-gnu.so
312     ./flaskhost/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/cacert.pem
316     ./flaskhost/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/certifi/cacert.pem
404     ./flaskhost/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jinja2/_stringdefs.py
3280    ./flaskhost/bin/python
3280    ./flaskhost/bin/python2
3280    ./flaskhost/bin/python2.7
3280    ./flaskhost/local/bin/python
3280    ./flaskhost/local/bin/python2
3280    ./flaskhost/local/bin/python2.7
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