Computer Tips - Linux: How I can find the largest/biggest files in a folder?

Date: 2010jan27 OS: Linux Q. Linux: How I can find the largest/biggest files in a folder? A. Use the -S option for ls that sorts by size. I also like to use the -h option that displays sizes in human-friendly format. Then pipe it to head which will display the top ten:
ls -lSh | head