How to find the largest file in a directory? [duplicate]

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Unix command to list all directories larger than 10mb

How to find the largest file in a directory?

The best way is to use ls, sorted by size:

ls -S

To get the biggest one, use head:

ls -S | head -1

Assuming you're in the directory already:

du -a | sort -nr | head -1

You can use the find command to do this work.

Let DIR is the directory in which you want to find the largest file, run the following command:

find DIR/ -type f -size +5000k

This will list the files whose size greater than 5MB. You can adjust this value (ie. option size) according to your need.

If you want to check the files under this DIR only, use the below one. You can adjust the maxdepth value to check in subfolder.

find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type f -size +5000k