Find largest files in directory trees

flf is a simple to use program to find the largest files in one or more directory trees.

flf, by default, shows the 10 largest files in the specified directory tree(s). If for a certain size there exists multiple files then the output would show more than 10 files.

Important: fzf doesn't check if files with the same size are hardlinks.

Other similar utilities

• https://github.com/noahrinehart/lrg

Installing

Could be installed with cargo, i.e. cargo install flf or by downloading the static binary from https://github.com/manfredlotz/flf/releases .

Usage

Getting help information

Run flf --help to get help.

``` flf 0.1.1 Manfred Lotz manfred.lotz@posteo.de Find largest files in directory trees.

USAGE: flf [OPTIONS] [DIRS]...

ARGS: ... Specify directories to check for largest files

OPTIONS: -G Show sizes in powers of ten --generate-completion [possible values: bash, elvish, fish, powershell, zsh] -h, --help Print help information -n Number of files to display [default: 10] --skip-hidden Skip hidden files and directories -V, --version Print version information -X Don't descend into other file systems ```

Find largest files

Examples

``` flf /usr/share/man

flf $HOME/Downloads $HOME/Documents ```

flf -n 5 /usr/share/man 10:49:38

TOP5 Finding the 5 largest files in given directories 319.80 KiB /usr/share/man/man1/ffplay-all.1.gz 322.55 KiB /usr/share/man/man1/ffprobe-all.1.gz 328.10 KiB /usr/share/man/man1/x86_64-linux-gnu-g++-9.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-9.1.gz 360.00 KiB /usr/share/man/man1/x86_64-linux-gnu-g++-11.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-11.1.gz 409.48 KiB /usr/share/man/man1/ffmpeg-all.1.gz

Show a specific number of largest files

Example

flf -n 5 /usr/share/man

Don't descend into other file systems

Example

flf -X /data/docs

Install completion for your shell

Example for fish:

flf --generate-completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/flf.fish