Find the largest files or directories in Linux
Writing by shivdev on Wednesday, 25 of February , 2015 at 8:32 am
Running out of space? To find the biggest files or folders in your Linux environment in descending order, switch to the root folder and then run the du command.
cd /
du -Sh | sort -rh | head -n 20
Mac equivalent is something like
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l | sort -k5,5rn
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