Linux - Find biggest file in var log, How to find top ten biggest files

Find biggest file in var log

How to find top ten biggest file in a directory or sub directories?

Dealing with log files are critical always, In production server you will be getting problems when the log makes your filesystem full.

Command to find top ten biggest file

 # find /var/log -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | sort -hr | head

Example:

# find /var/log -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | sort -hr | head

OUTPUT:

6.1M	/var/log/audit/audit.log.1
1.6M	/var/log/anaconda/anaconda.storage.log
1.4M	/var/log/audit/audit.log
1.2M	/var/log/messages-20120627
1.2M	/var/log/messages
1.1M	/var/log/wtmp-20120226
760K	/var/log/dracut.log

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