Using find to find largest files

Question

I've been using the command below which works well for finding the largest files in a certain folder.

find . -printf '%s %p\n'| sort -nr | head -10

However this provides output in KB only.

20160 /home/user/userfile

How can I change this command to show me results in MB, or GB? I can do this with du and get similar results but I am looking for a way to do this by tweaking the command above.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '17 at 15:02

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find . -type f -exec du -m {} \; | sort -nr | head -10

Execute a du for each regular file and give the desired option like -m for megabyte

answered Mar 30 '17 at 15:02

Philippos

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This works great. I was not able to get the numfmt package as suggested in the previous comment. – user53029 Mar 30 '17 at 15:10

Using find to find largest files

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