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If you want to Sort your files and folders by size use the following tip

You need to open terminal use the following command

ls -lS –block-size=1 | awk ‘ {print $5,$6,$7,$8}’ >size.txt; du -s –block-size=1 */ >>size.txt; sort -n size.txt

or

{ ls -lS –block-size=1 | awk ‘ {print $5,$6,$7,$8}’; du -s –block-size=1 */ ; } | sort -nr | less

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