List LS query by file size
 

Hello,

I was wondering how I could list an LS query by the file sizes, i.e. smallest file to largest file...

Thanks,

man ls

Specifically look at -S & -r

Sort by Size with ls
 

ls -lSr | tail -10

Is very useful . . .

[jhumkey@holmes etc]$ ls -lSr | tail -10
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 51287 2010-11-10 06:41 dovecot.conf.rpmnew
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 51291 2010-05-23 14:41 dovecot.conv.orig.jkh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 51348 2010-06-15 14:16 dovecot.conf.jkh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 51348 2012-07-29 15:53 dovecot.conf
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 69097 2010-07-22 11:23 php.ini
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 131314 2009-09-18 07:35 Muttrc
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 144184 2010-04-15 04:52 lynx.cfg
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 149261 2012-07-01 12:22 ld.so.cache
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 634392 2009-09-08 01:55 services
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 644755 2013-05-23 03:32 prelink.cache

To . . .
l -> display Long listing with filesizes
S -> sort by Size
r -> Reverse the sort order (biggest files to bottom)
| tail -10 -> Show only the last (biggest) 10 files in the directory.

Great !!!
If you want to know the difference between ls -s & ls -S
Read this.
http://www.rapidtables.com/code/linux/ls/ls-s.htm
or
If you want to know the difference between ls -r & ls -R
Read this.
http://www.rapidtables.com/code/linu...-r.htm#reverse