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Ls command to find file size

Normally we list the files by using ls command, but most of the time we use du command to find the file size of a file. The ls command can also be used to find the file size. The below is a simple example to list the file size of files in human readable format using ls command.

 # ls -aslhS | head

OUTPUT:

total 2.6G
2.1G -rw-------  1 root   root   2.1G Dec  2 12:39 local1.log
386M -rw-------  1 root   root   386M Jan 20 08:01 kern.log
 84K -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   258M Jan 20 09:40 lastlog
112M -rw-------  1 root   root   112M Jan 20 09:41 cron.log
 44K -rw-------  1 root   root    29M Jan  3 11:49 faillog
4.8M -rw-------  1 root   root   4.8M Jan 20 09:30 daemon.log
3.3M -rw-------  1 root   root   3.3M Jan 20 09:23 mail.log

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