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A situation may occur in your office that you might have to clear the space in the server by deleting the largest files in the log directory. If you want to find and print the top 10 largest files' names (not directories) in a particular directory and its sub directories you can use the following commands.
$ find . -printf '%s %p\n'|sort -nr|head
To restrict the search to the present directory, you can use the parameter "-maxdepth 1" with find command.
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -printf '%s %p\n'|sort -nr|head
And to print the top 10 largest "files and directories":
$ du -a . | sort -nr | head
you can vary the number of files to be printed on the screen by using "head" command as "head -n X" instead of using only "head" in all the above commands to print the top X largest files
$ find . -printf '%s %p\n'|sort -nr|head
To restrict the search to the present directory, you can use the parameter "-maxdepth 1" with find command.
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -printf '%s %p\n'|sort -nr|head
And to print the top 10 largest "files and directories":
$ du -a . | sort -nr | head
you can vary the number of files to be printed on the screen by using "head" command as "head -n X" instead of using only "head" in all the above commands to print the top X largest files
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