Linux search and find commands

How to search top 10 biggest Files and Directories On a Linux ?

• du -a / | sort -n -r | head -n 10

sample output: 13114096 / 10202596 /opt 10202588 /opt/hybris 7103152 /opt/hybris/data 6512664 /opt/hybris/data/acceleratorservices 6498916 /opt/hybris/data/acceleratorservices/export 2891404 /opt/hybris/bin 1373652 /usr 849436 /var 834120 /usr/lib   For more human readable output:

• cd /path/to/some/where
• du -hsx * | sort -rh | head -10

  sample output 9.4G opt 1.4G usr 830M var 485M tmp 121M lib 17M boot 7.2M root 5.6M bin 5.2M etc 4.1M sbin