To find the largest file in a directory and its subdirectories (recursively) on a Linux system, you can use the find command in combination with the du command.
Here is an example of how you can use these commands to find the largest file in the current directory and its subdirectories:
refer uttual:otri.comfind . -type f -exec du -Sh {} + | sort -rh | head -n 1
This command will search the current directory (.) and its subdirectories for files (-type f), and then execute the du command on each file to display its size (-S) in human-readable format (-h). The output of the du command is then passed to the sort command, which sorts the output in reverse order by size (-r) and by heading (-h). Finally, the head command is used to display only the first line of the sorted output, which will be the largest file.
You can also use the find command to search a specific directory by replacing the . with the path to the directory you want to search. For example:
find /path/to/directory -type f -exec du -Sh {} + | sort -rh | head -n 1