Linux Pipelines, xargs, split, diff, and Practical Recipes Cheat Sheet/Find the largest files in a tree
List the top 20 largest files by size.
Section: Practical Recipes
Find the largest files in a tree
bash
bash
find . -type f -printf '%s %p
' | sort -nr | head -20Explanation
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