Find largest directories/files recursively [duplicate]

I'm looking for a script/program which will display the top x largest directories/files and then descend into those folders and display the x largest directories/files for a configurable depth.

231MB bin
 - 220MB ls
  - 190MB dir
  - 15MB def
  - 3MB lpr
 - 10MB asd
 - 1MB link

How can I do that?

You can see the 10 largest directories with:

du -cks *|sort -rn|head

This will recursively add up the sizes of everything in each directory - but you would have to manually execute it at each level to get a breakdown of what's in each

Chances are your system has one of these installed or available through your package manager:

Graphical:

• Baobab - aka Disk Usage Analyzer - Gnome (Applications>Accessories or Applications>System Tools)
• KDirStat - KDE
• Filelight - KDE
• TreeSize for Unix - GTK2

Text-based:

• ncdu - ncurses
• gt5 - text browser (lynx, w3m, etc. - auto-selected) - It's actually a shell script!

They may not work exactly as you specified, but they should do most of what you need.

My variation on Brent's answer is:

# du -a | sort -rn | head

Which will give you the largest directories or files in the tree.