Report the Largest Files Under a Tree

Scan a directory tree, sort files by size, and print the largest offenders so disk pressure can be investigated quickly.

BashCli Tooling

Code

snippet
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

readonly ROOT="${1:-.}"
readonly TOP_N="${2:-10}"

if [[ ! -d "${ROOT}" ]]; then
  echo "not a directory: ${ROOT}" >&2
  exit 2
fi

find "${ROOT}" -type f -size +10M -print0 \
  | xargs -0 du -h 2>/dev/null \
  | sort -rh \
  | head -n "${TOP_N}"