Recipe Find Large Files
googleworkspace/cliOfficial
A straightforward two-step recipe for tracking down storage hogs in Google Drive. Runs a single gws command to pull your 20 largest files sorted by quota usage, displaying them in a clean table with names, sizes, types, and owners. Perfect when you're bumping against storage limits and need to quickly identify what's eating up space without clicking through folders. The output gives you exactly what you need to decide what to archive, delete, or move to cheaper storage. Requires the gws-drive skill but otherwise just works.
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- Aug 21, 2026
Install
$ npx -y skills add googleworkspace/cli --skill recipe-find-large-files --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
Files
Find Largest Files in Drive
PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe:
gws-drive
Identify large Google Drive files consuming storage quota.
Steps
- List files sorted by size:
gws drive files list --params '{"orderBy": "quotaBytesUsed desc", "pageSize": 20, "fields": "files(id,name,size,mimeType,owners)"}' --format table - Review the output and identify files to archive or move
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- Repository
- github.com/googleworkspace/cli
- Categories
- Sales & Marketing, CLI & Terminal
