I'd use the following: 
% find -ls | awk '{print $7,$11}' | sort -rn
3093645 ./.perl/OLD_SITE/SOAP.tar.gz
97879 ./humor/dork2.jpg
87223 ./tmp/hat_puzzle.jpg
76110 ./.bin/webwatch/.log
55080 ./documentation/PerlTK-reference.zip
43704 ./documentation/perldoc/perlsub.pod
39424 ./NROTCURPI/invite.doc
33042 ./humor/dork1.jpg
[etc...]

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You may need to fiddle with awk somewhat there. For me, this ran in 1.11 seconds. Faster than anything you could muck up in Perl, I'm sure.

In reply to Re: Finding biggest files by japhy
in thread Finding biggest files by Anonymous Monk

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