Find largest file in a directory using Bash
Company: Intuit
Role: Software Engineer
Category: Software Engineering Fundamentals
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Take-home Project
Write a Bash command (or short script) that, given a directory path, returns the **largest regular file** under that directory.
Requirements:
- Search **recursively** under the directory.
- Output the file path (and ideally the size as well).
- Handle file names that may contain spaces.
Example:
- Input: `/var/log`
- Output: something like `1234567 /var/log/biggest.log`
Quick Answer: This question evaluates a candidate's proficiency with shell scripting and Unix command-line concepts, including recursive file-system traversal, recognizing regular files versus other file types, handling filenames with whitespace, and extracting size metadata.