Command to find largest file within multiple subdirectories

Hi!

I have a directory called uploadfiles, and underneath that is:

user1
user2
user3

up to like user500

I'm trying to find the largest files in these /home/dwh/uploadfiles/user* directories.
Is there a way to get let's say the top 10 biggest files?

Thanks!

will give you the "top-ten"

Thank you so much!

If you don't mind I will repeat the code below with notes on what I understand and what I don't just so I can learn the meaning behind the code too!

"find"
searches for...

"."

within the current directory...

"-printf"

hmmm. -print would be to the screen? -printf to a file??

" '%s %p\n'"

uh...u got me there...

"|"

pipe to...

"sort"

never used sort but I guess it sorts!

"-nr"

uh...hmm no idea...

"|head"

pipe to head, like heading a file similar to tailing a file?

if you don´t mind...


"find"
searches for...
"."
within the current directory...

//-- no. "." is the current directory. find searches for any file in the current directory (and sub-dirs)

"-printf"

hmmm. -print would be to the screen? -printf to a file??

//-- printf is a common programming language function "print formatted"

" '%s %p\n'"
uh...u got me there...

//-- this is the format strings. from the manual ("man find") you know that
//-- %s is filesize in bytes, %p is filename with path, \n is a "new line"

"|"
pipe to...
"sort"
never used sort but I guess it sorts!
"-nr"
uh...hmm no idea...

//-- from the manual ("man sort"): numeric sort, reverse sort

"|head"

pipe to head, like heading a file similar to tailing a file?

//-- 100% correct. default is 10 lines. again, see "man head"
//-- linux is , eh?

Very !!

It didn't even dawn on me to man the find command doh! Sorry

Of course I can't really understand the man explanations half the time! I usually need to see a full example in use and the result of the command...