Ls

Linux sort files by size with ls

# ls -S -l
# ls -l -S | sort -k 5 -n  # sort top 5 largest files in reverse order
# ls -l -S -h # sort by size in human readable format
# ls -Slhr | grep -v '^d' # exclude directories from sort by size with ls

View access timestamp (atime), the modified timestamp (mtime), and the changed timestamp (ctime) with ls

# ls -l myfile.c # shows mtime
# ls -lu myfile.c # shows atime
# ls -lc myfile.c # shows ctime