Sorting files in UNIX

[waffycasem]

I was reading this other thread and I got curious... is there a way for me to list files in UNIX and sort them by file size? I could think of ways of doing it in SQL, but not in UNIX (my 'UNIX skills' suck eh.) If ever there is a way to do this, could how do I include hidden files? And maybe display the 10 largest files in my hard drive, including hidden files?

Thanks!

[alistair]

Man "find", "ls" and "sort".

In particular, here's a quick and dirty way to do it (WARNING: WILL TAKE FOREVER!):

find / -type f -exec ls -l {} \; | sort -n +4

Add "sudo" to include all files regardless of ownership or permissions.