List 10 biggest files in a directory

The commmands below show the ten largest files/dirs in the working directory. Both commands give similar results, though handle things slightly differently. The 'du' option is good if you also need sizes of subdirectories, but the 'ls' option gives more detail.

ls -laSh | head -10

du -s * | sort -nr | head -10

I find both to be useful in situations where I need to make more free space.