Dan Coates

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Using `eza` to find large files in a directory

eza cli

Eza is an enhanced version of ls that has a bunch of nice extra features. A few of its options are useful for finding big files in a directory.

  • -T will recurse through subdirectories and show the results as a tree
  • --total-size will calculate sizes for directories as well as files
  • --sort=size will sort the results by size. 
eza -lT --total-size --sort=size

You can also use the -D flag to limit to only include directories in the results if there are too many small files to enumerate. Or use the --level=4 flag to limit the depth of directory to recurse to.