The storage quota screen shows your largest files first. Screenshot Listing Your Google Drive Files by Size You can sort your files by size in Google Drive by going to and then clicking the Storage button on the left side of the screen. In summary, if you wanted to see how to show the largest files under a directory on MacOS, Unix, and Linux systems, I hope this is helpful.How to Delete Google Drive Files by Size Sort Files by Size in Google Drive with the Quota Page Their solution was very close, but just needed a minor change or two to work on MacOS. Note: I was pointed towards this solution by this page. In that command, head -30 prints the first 30 results, but then the tail command shows only the last 10 files, which displays files 21-30 in the end. To show files 21-30 you can add in the tail command, like this:ĭu -a * | sort -r -n | head -30 | tail -10
To show the first 20 files/directories you’d use this command:
Users/Al/Music> du -a * | sort -r -n | head -10Ĩ049464 iTunes/iTunes Music/Unknown ArtistĦ101880 iTunes/iTunes Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album Variations of that `du` commandĪs mentioned, that command shows how to display the largest 10 files and folders under the current OS X directory. In the Music folder on my Mac the command and output look like this:
After that, head -10 shows only the first ten lines of output. The Unix/Linux command that worked for me on my MacOS system is this:ĭu is the disk usage command, and the -a flag says, “Display an entry for each file in a file hierarchy.” Then I use the sort command to sort the du output numerically and in reverse. A du/sort command to show the largest files under a directory on Mac OS X Solution: Use the Unix du (disk usage) command, and sort its output. MacOS FAQ: From the command line, how do I show the largest files under a directory on macOS (and Linux/Unix systems).
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