If you use the du command to list all the file sizes on Linux:
du
# or
du -h # Human readable
Then you would have noticed that they are not ordered by file size.
Instead you can pass that result to the sort command as follows:
du -h | sort -h
How to Order by File Size using the du command in Linux
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