How to show largest file and directory size in linux

Print largest file and directory size of the current directory

du -sh * | sort -n -r

Print largest file and directory size of any directory

du -sh * /dirname | sort -n -r

 

Print top 5 maximum file size

du -sh * /dirname | sort -n -r | head -n 5

 

 

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