How to find the 10 largest files in a directory using a Linux shell command

Without recursion

find-largest-files.sh

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec du -h {} + 2>/dev/null | sort -rh | head -n 1

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec du -h {} + 2>/dev/null | sort -rh | head -n 1

find-largest-files-recursive.sh

find . -type f -exec du -h {} + 2>/dev/null | sort -rh | head -n 10

find . -type f -exec du -h {} + 2>/dev/null | sort -rh | head -n 10

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