How to find the largest file in a directory and its subdirectories?

Question

We\'re just starting a UNIX class and are learning a variety of Bash commands. Our assignment involves performing various commands on a directory that has a number of folder

Answer 1

On Solaris I use:

find . -type f -ls|sort -nr -k7|awk 'NR==1{print $7,$11}' #formatted

or

find . -type f -ls | sort -nrk7 | head -1 #unformatted

because anything else posted here didn't work. This will find the largest file in $PWD and subdirectories.