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