Find heavier file on my operating system

[Deblib]

Hi, I would like to know how I can find the file that weighs the most on my hard drive (and how much it weighs).
Thanks!

[Dai_trying]

I found ncdu does a great job.

[Deblib]

Great tool!
But, would it be possible with the command find or similar by the Terminal?

[sunrat]

This will list files in CWD in size order:

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du -sh * | sort -hr

[debiman]

Great tool!
But, would it be possible with the command find or similar by the Terminal?

yes.

[Dai_trying]

Great tool!
But, would it be possible with the command find or similar by the Terminal?

yes.

To expand on this a little, you can use find to do this but you will obviously need to do some filtering and/or sorting of the results to get the information you want.

If you just want to largest file you could use sort and then tail to give only the first (or last depending on sort order) result, but this might use a lot of resources, especially if you are using find from the root of your system as it would sort ALL the results of find.