Bash - Find largest file and print its path

Question

I need to find the largest file of chosen directory and sub-directories and print the path of that file

I can find the biggest file (I think so)

find . -type f | wc -l

However, I'm stuck on printing the path

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 18 '17 at 14:48

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find . -type f | xargs ls -l | sort -nk 5 | tail -n1 | awk '{print $NF}'

answered Dec 18 '17 at 14:48

Viktor Khilin

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 18 '17 at 15:09

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What i would do :

find . -type f -exec du {} \; | sort -n | awk 'END{$1=""; print}'

edited Dec 18 '17 at 15:09

Inian

answered Dec 18 '17 at 14:52

Gilles Quénot

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