How to output all files/folders ordered by size, including hidden ones

Question

How can I output all files/directories, ordered by size, including hidden ones
(those whose name starts with a dot), all in one go? ¹

The difference to How can I sort du -h output by size is that I'm requesting an output
that includes all files and directories – whether hidden or not.

References

• How can I sort du -h output by size
• How can I find the biggest directories in Unix / Ubuntu?
• How to use du to see files greater than a threshold size
• How do you sort du output by size?
• How to list all files ordered by size
• du command does not parse hidden directories
• How to get the summarized sizes of directories
• Display each subdirectory size in a list format
• Fast way to display the size of each subdirectory

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¹ By size of a directory, I mean the sum of all file sizes in the directory and all of its subdirectory tree.

Answer 1

How can I output all files/directories, ordered by size, including hidden ones?

Use the du (disk usage) command, which is part of GNU coreutils : ¹

du -hs -- * .[^.]* | sort -h

The .[^.]* regular expression makes sure that hidden files and directories are included.

To list only hidden files and directories :

du -hs -- .[^.]* | sort -h

Some more cases

List only directories, sorted increasing in size :

du -hs -- */ .[^.]*/ | sort -h

List only files, sorted increasing in size : ²

ls -AhlS | grep '^-' | tac

List only hidden files, sorted increasing in size :

ls -hldS .* | grep '^-' | tac

List only regular files, sorted increasing in size :

ls -lS | grep '^-' | tac

References

• The du (disk usage) Linux man page
• GNU coreutils
• In regular expressions, caret (^) means not
• Comment on how to include both hidden and non-hidden files
• Utility Syntax | Guideline 10, end of options
• The ncdu disk usage analyzer
• Answer recommending ncdu
• The ls (list directory contents) Linux man page
• How to reverse output in the command line
• How to show only folders over 1 GB in size
• How to list all files ordered by size

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¹ I gratefully attribute my solution to this comment. The -- argument marks the end of options.
The du command can be painfully slow for very large files/folders. Consider using the ncdu command instead.
To install on a Debian derivative, including Ubuntu, run: sudo apt install -y ncdu.
On Arch Linux, including MSYS2, run: yes | pacman -Syu ncdu.
To use it, type ncdu, and press ↵.

² The -h flag of ls outputs the file sizes in a human-readable style.
The -S flag sorts the output in the order of decreasing size.
The pipe | grep '^-' excludes directories and symbolic links.
The pipe | tac reverses the output.