How to find and delete the top 100 most used files in Linux/Unix

Steps to find and delete the top 100 most used files in Linux/Unix

Command to find most disk space used files:

find / -xdev -type f -size +100M -exec du -sh {} ';' | sort -rh | head -n100

Command to delete the content without removing the file

> <<filename>>

E.g.

> sample.txt

Here > is used to empty the file

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