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I'm looking to display the largest files in a file system without descending into subdirectories.
The / file system is 65% full and I'm looking to display only the files in / without taking into
consideration other filesystem/directories.

I can execute this command
du -sk ./* |sort -nr |head -0

and this gives me the 10 biggest items (subd's and all) in / but I only want
to isolate files. Is there an easy way to accomplish this?

If I've understood correctly your request, you may try this:

Code:

find / -type f -xdev -exec ls -l {} \; | sort -nk5 | tail

Worked like a charm! Thanks for the help.