How to print only the largest file in a directory in Linux?

Question

I would like to know how can i sort a directory and print out to the terminal only the largest file in that specific directory? This is my directory:

 file1 2 file2 3 file3 1 file4 5 file5 2 

The wanted result is to print "file4" to the terminal

Answer 1

For just files in the directory you can use this:

ls -Shld * | head -n 1

To include directories you can us du:

du -a * | sort -n -r | head -n 1