We can do this by ls -lrt | sort +4nr -5 | head -1 or du -s .

how to find largest file?

Question Posted / madhusudan choudhary

Answer Posted / madhusudan choudhary

We can do this by

ls -lrt | sort +4nr -5 | head -1

or

du -s . | sort -nr | head -1

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