How to find top K largest files in a directory on Linux?

By Eric Ma | | Updated on Mar 24, 2018

I have many files in a directory on Linux. How to find top K largest files in a directory?

For example, find top 10 (K=10) large files in the current directory:

du -h --max-depth 1 * | sort -rh | head -n 10

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