[abctest483]

I am working on a Linux production server and the client wants to be able to find the largest files on the system to make sure they are not taking up too much space.

I found this command: sudo du -a / 2>/dev/null | sort -n -r | head -n 20, but it gives the largest directories, not files.

Does anyone know what command can find the largest files?

Thanks

[abctest483]

The following solution using find should meet your requirements:

# find / -type f -print0 | du -h --files0-from=- 2>/dev/null | sort -h -r | head -n 20

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