Recently, my company website wants to host media files (user uploaded files) to some cloud storage service. But in preparation, we realized that our media folder is too big, about 48GiB. We need to delete unnecessary files to save the storage cost. Part of it, we need to hunt down big files.
I looked around to find a command to list largest files in Linux. Most of the tutorials on Internet tell you to use a combination of commands, which is often du | sort | head
, or find | sort | head
. None of them satisfies me, because:
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Combination with
du
only gives result of directories, not files.