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Sort file and directories recursively by size
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unix-sort-by-size.md

Directories:

$ du -h -d 1 <some-top-level-directory> | sort -h

Mac users can

$ brew install coreutils
$ du -h -d 1 <some-top-level-directory> | gsort -h

Files:

$ ls -lSh <some-top-level-directory>
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