Finding files that use the most disk space

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Finding files that use the most disk space
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With standard available tools:

To list the top 10 largest files from the current directory: du . | sort -nr | head -n10

To list the largest directories from the current directory: du -s * | sort -nr | head -n10

by jippie from http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37224