A collection of terminal commands for sorting output on the server

server-file-sorting.txt

ls - l 
Display output in long list format

ls -lt  (r) for reverse
Display long list format and sort by last modified time/date

ls -Rt
Recursive into directories

ls -lh
Use human readable file sizes

ls -lhS
Sort by file sizes

ls -lSrh
Sort ascending by file size

ls -l --block-size=M
ls -l --block-size=MB
Long list format with files sizes rounded up to neares M/MB


du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -h
List filesize per directory


find . -mtime +30 -exec ls -l {} \;
Find files created before/older than 30 days in the current directory

find . -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;
Delete files created before/older than 30 days in the current directory