[SOLVED] How to list files in a directory, sorted by size, but without listing folder sizes?

How to list files in a directory, sorted by size, but without listing folder sizes?

I'm writing a bash script that should output the first 10 heaviest files in a directory and all subfolders (the directory is passed to the script as an argument). And for this I use the following command: sudo du -haS ../../src/ | sort -hr , but its output contains folder sizes, and I only need files. Help!

Solution

Would you please try the following:

dir="../../src/"
sudo find "$dir" -type f -printf "%s\t%p\n" | sort -nr | head -n 10 | cut -f2-

find "$dir" -type f searches $dir for files recursively.
The -printf "%s\t%p\n" option tells find to print the filesize and the filename delimited by a tab character.
The final cut -f2- in the pipeline prints the 2nd and the following columns, dropping the filesize column only.

It will work with the filenames which contain special characters such as a whitespace except for a newline character.