Linux Explore » heaad https://blog.linuxexplore.com Exploring Linux Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:30:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 Finding the biggest files in Linux https://blog.linuxexplore.com/2012/07/28/finding-the-biggest-files-in-linux/ https://blog.linuxexplore.com/2012/07/28/finding-the-biggest-files-in-linux/#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:04:53 +0000 http://linuxexplore.wordpress.com/?p=489 A common problem with computers is when you have a number of large files (such as audio/video clips) that you may want to get rid of. You can find the biggest files in the current directory with: ( only in current directory )

ls -lSrh (the r causes the large files to be listed at the end, the h gives human readable output (MB and such))

You could also search for the biggest MP3/MPEGs:

ls -lSrh *.mp*

You can also look for the largest directories with:

du -kx | egrep -v “./.+/” | sort -n

You can find the biggest files in your home directory, ( in the whole directory structure ).

find ~ -type f -exec ls -s {} ; | sort -n

List only the top 10 biggest file.

find . -type f -exec ls -s {} ; | sort -nr | head -10

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