Unix question: list all files, largest first?

[xmiinc]

A friend needs help identifying his largest files on a disk. I've come close in Terminal (ls, find), but haven't found the syntax to do the following:
list all files, largest first, including path and file-size in megabytes.

Can someone help me out? Thanks in advance...

 

[overanalyzer]

Found this via Google: http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/find_large_files.html

Looks like you should be able to concoct what you want with a find -exec ls piped to sort. I'd suggest running the command through sudo so you don't get oodles of permission denied messages from the find.

Also, if you're doing this in OS X, you might try WhatSize or Disk Inventory X.

 

[xmiinc]

Thanks! I'm sure these utils will be helpful (and I can continue trying to solve this via the cli...I'm curious that way)

 

[oblomow]

ls -alR | sort -n -k5,5

(recursive directory listing, numerically sorted of the 5th item of each line, which is the size of the file)