Sorting the sizes of your output of “du” (Disk Usage) is as easy as:

du -s * | sort -n -r | more

Breaking down:

du -s * = DiskUsage <do not enter into sub-directories> <all files in current directory>

Legenda:

  • | = PIPE
  • sort -n -r = SORT <Numerically> <Revered>
  • more = PageByPage