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biggest - list biggest files and folders
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| #!/bin/env bash | |
| # biggest - list biggest files and folders | |
| # | |
| # Usage: | |
| # biggest | |
| # biggest *.png | |
| du --apparent-size --all --max-depth 1 --one-file-system "$@" \ | |
| | sort --numeric-sort --ignore-leading-blanks --reverse \ | |
| | head --lines $(( $# + 10 )) | |
| | tac |
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A beefed up version as a new project: https://github.com/thingsiplay/biggest Does things a bit differently, such as inverted sort (biggest on top) and does not automatically search in directories.