What is the command to list files from directory in decreasing order of their file size.

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Pavithra Navaneeth

  • Nov 3rd, 2007
 

ll -rt|sort -knr5
Here ll -rt list the files along with permission, owner, group, etc...
sort will sort the output of ll -rt according to 5th field which is the file size.
Hence the output of list will be sorted according to the file size and it will be listed.

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