find the 5o largest files in a directory

Applications Filesystems, Disks and Memory
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I'm trying to find the 50 largest file in a directory named /sasdb and its' subdirectories. I'm using the find command and a pipe to awk
Not sure if I'm actually getting the largest files from this directory and its subdirectories. Here is the code I used...

find /sasdb -ls | awk '{print $0}' | sort -n >> my.lst
tail -50 my.lst >> largest_files.lst

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You

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find /home/test -printf "%s:%p\n"|sort -k1n|tail -50
3

I tried this and receiveed an error messge that stated bad option -printf

find /sasdb -printf "%s:%p\n"| sort -kin| tail -50

4

igidttam,
See if this works for you:

du -a | sort -nr | head -50
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you do not have GNU find.
you first approach should be fine, just that you should check $0 , i don't think its the size. but pls do check.

find /home/test -type f -ls | awk '{print $7}' | sort -n | tail -50
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this will include size of directories. think OP just wants largest files?

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yes this gives me the directories. I just need the file names.
thanks

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find . -type f -exec  du {} \; | sort -nr | head -50
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this works for me.
I appreciate your help. ThankYou