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Unfortunately in Linux there is no single command that lets you find large files, however with the help of the Find command we can create a list of large files.

In this example, we are looking for files over 100mb in the /home directory.

Search for files in a directory, and sub-directories

cd /home

Then, we will search for files within the directory that are equal to or over 100MB

find . -type f -size +100MB -exec ls -lh {} ; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

Sometimes analyzing large files from a huge directory is easier done by posting the results straight into a text file

find . -type f -size +100MB -exec ls -lh {} ; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }' > 100mb.txt

Without navigating to the directory you want to search for large files, you can replace the . with the directory listing

find /home -type f -size +100MB -exec ls -lh {} ; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }' > 100mb.txt