List The 10 Largest Files Or Directories On Linux

First we’ll use the du -sm command to give the results in MB:

Now we can see that the results aren’t sorted, so we’ll sort them by the sort -nr command, which sorts by numerical value in reverse. Finally, we’ll run the results through head -10 to get the top 10 results:

This is the command we are going to run:

Here’s an example of the output:

Useful stuff.

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