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Get the largest files in a directory in human-readable format.
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If you have a folder my/folder, you can run

du -h my/folder | sort -rh | head -n 10

to get a list of the 10 largest subfolders.

Explanation:

  • du -h: get the size of the elements in the folder in human-readable format
  • sort -rh: sort human-readable in reverse order (requires an updated version of sort)
  • head -n 10: only take the first 10 elements

The tree command also has built in support for showing file sizes: run tree --du and the file sizes will be included in the directory listing.

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