Unix ramdom question. How do you display a list of files in your current directory, sorted...

Unix ramdom question.

How do you display a list of files in your current directory, sorted by file size with the largest files at the top.

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Expert Solution

You can simply do

ls -lS <folder_name> | grep -v '^d'

to list all the files in decreasing order of size

-lS, S tells to sort in descending order
Example:

ls -lS ./ | grep -v '^d'

total 45237
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax 34262107 Aug 26 14:44 transactions.csv
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax 7340032 Sep 8 13:08 NTUSER.DAT
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax 1794048 Jan 21 2019 ntuser.dat.LOG2
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax 1572864 Jan 21 2019 ntuser.dat.LOG1
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax   524288 Jul 11 15:50 NTUSER.DAT{a5e2f1b0-cf93-11e8-b6a1-802bf91bed62}.TMContainer00000000000000000001.regtrans-ms
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax   524288 Jan 21 2019 NTUSER.DAT{a5e2f1b0-cf93-11e8-b6a1-802bf91bed62}.TMContainer00000000000000000002.regtrans-ms
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax   148956 Sep 8 19:15 Time oriented Data Visulaizations.ipynb
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax    65536 Jul 11 15:50 NTUSER.DAT{a5e2f1b0-cf93-11e8-b6a1-802bf91bed62}.TM.blf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax    53319 Jun 3 11:00 4bo0yx7larez5e34
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax     8736 Aug 6 14:58 a.out
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax     4349 Jun 11 16:41 requirements.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax     2713 May 31 17:22 10-powerline-symbols.conf.1
-r-xr-xr-x 1 atriax atriax     2130 Sep 6 10:50 ntuser.pol
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax      664 Aug 6 14:57 main.c
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax       75 Aug 6 14:50 file.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax       47 Sep 7 16:29 data.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 atriax atriax       20 Jan 21 2019 ntuser.ini

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