Finding large files on Linux distributions

Finding large files on all operating systems is a daily task for systems administrators around the world, it serves a lot of purposes.
I will show multiple ways to do it on various Linux distribution. Simple and makes your life easier.

Pay attention to the size in all examples – change it according to your needs.

RPM Based distributions: Red Hat, Centos, Fedora

Specify path:

find {/path/to/location/} -type f -size +{size-in-kb}k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

Example for specific path:

find /home/http/logs -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

Current Dir:

find . -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

Debian or Debian based ( Ubuntu and various other deb based distros )

Specify path:

find {/path/to/location} -type f -size +{file-size-in-kb}k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'

Current Dir:

find . -type f -size +10000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'

Largest files in directory:

ls -lSh | less

du -xakh .|sort -n|tail -10

du -k | sort -n | perl -ne 'if ( /^(\d+)\s+(.*$)/){$l=log($1+.1);$m=int($l/log(1024)); printf                 ("%6.1f\t%s\t%25s  %s\n",($1/(2**(10*$m))),(("K","M","G","T","P")[$m]),"*"x (1.5*$l),$2);}'

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -lSh | head -10