How to sort files and folders by size in Linux

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2022-09-16

du -sh -- *  | sort -rh  # Files and directories, or
du -sh -- */ | sort -rh  # Directories only

The output looks something like this:

22G     foo/
21G     bar/
5.4G    baz/
2.1G    qux/
1021M   wibble/
4.0K    wobble/

main source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/106330/sort-all-directories-based-on-their-size

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/sort-command-linuxunix-examples/