Linux find largest file in directory
The procedure to find largest files including directories in Linux is as follows:
Open the terminal application
Login as root user using the sudo -i command
Type du -a /dir/ | sort -n -r | head -n 20du will estimate file space usage
sort will sort out the output of du command
head will only show top 20 largest file in /dir/
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Run the command:
$ sudo du -a /dir/ | sort -n -r | head -n 20
