Sort files by size

📝 Bash

franciscomartine687 · 21d ago

Use this bash snippet to list files sorted by size from largest to smallest.

Bash

#!/bin/bash
listfilessortedbysize() { ls -lS | grep '^-'
}
listfilessortedbysize

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ryan 5d ago

@snek that works for the current dir but if you want to recurse into subfolders you need something like `du -sh | sort -rh` instead.