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I am extremely confused, since a command I'm rather confident in, returns something completely different than I imagine!

My assignment is simple: Find files (in a specific directory that is given) , show only the ones above 100 megabytes, sort them by size, print them in ls -lh format.

This is what I execute:

find /home/it21366 -size +10M | sort -h | ls -lh

This is what I get

-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 it21366 unixusers 12K Απρ 28 2014 a.out
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 it21366 unixusers 471 Νοέ 29 10:51 askisi.sh
-rw-r--r--+ 1 it21366 unixusers 3,0K Απρ 28 2014 code.c
-rw-r--r--+ 1 it21366 unixusers 3,0K Απρ 28 2014 code.c~
-rw-r--r--+ 1 it21366 unixusers 6,2K Απρ 28 2014 CODE.txt
-rw-------+ 1 it21366 unixusers 2,0M Απρ 28 2014 core
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 it21366 unixusers 66 Δεκ 6 14:39 it21366_ex_1_1
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 it21366 unixusers 190 Δεκ 6 14:35 it21366_ex_1_4.sh
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 it21366 unixusers 190 Δεκ 6 14:27 it21366_ex_1_4.sh~
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 it21366 unixusers 546 Δεκ 5 17:46 it21366_ex_1_5
-rw-r--r--+ 1 it21366 unixusers 509K Οκτ 23 2014 java01.pdf
-rw-r--r--+ 1 it21366 unixusers 506K Οκτ 23 2014 java02.pdf
-rw-r--r--+ 1 it21366 unixusers 249K Οκτ 11 10:03 lab01_2018-19.pdf
-rw-r--r--+ 1 it21366 unixusers 1,2K Οκτ 24 16:27 MyClock.java
-rw-r--r--+ 1 it21366 unixusers 1,3K Οκτ 30 2013 starthere.desktop
-rw-r--r--+ 1 it21366 unixusers 3 Οκτ 24 12:45 test
-rw-r--r--+ 1 it21366 unixusers 12 Οκτ 24 12:45 TK.txt
-rw-r--r--+ 1 it21366 unixusers 14K Μάι 30 2018 Untitled 1.odt

Indeed I am a beginner, but I can't imagine why LS seems to ignore the other methods, and simply shows the contents of the files unsorted and unfiltered.

I would greatly appreciate some insight, not necessarily a direct solution, just a small hint will do!

Thank you in advance!

use xargs:

find /home/it21366 -size +10M | xargs ls -lhsSr 

Another option, if the number of files is limited enough to fit in one (long) call to ls, would be to use find to find the large files and ls -S to do the sorting:

find /home/it21366 -type f -size +10M -exec ls -lS + 2>/dev/null

The -exec ... + tells find to replace the "found" files into the call to ls, fitting as many as it can. If there are too many files, you'll get multiple calls to ls and thus un-sorted results (they'll be sorted in groups). I also added -type f to restrict the matches to regular files.