How to find large files in Linux operating system?
Posted by
Jay 5 January, 2010 426 views
Even though Linux OS provides GUI explorer like windows, you have search functionality in windows to find a particular files within the size range. How can we find similar search in command line linux?
Here is the sample command:
From root directory, Finds all files over 20,000KB (roughly 20MB) in size and presents their names and size
find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk ‘{ print $9 “: ” $5 }’
From current directory, Finds all files over 20,000KB (roughly 20MB) in size and presents their names and size
find . -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk ‘{ print $9 “: ” $5 }’
I ran this to find more 200MB size file, and got the results in seconds!
find . -type f -size +200000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk ‘{ print $9 “: ” $5 }’
Similarly, we can find the same results using this:
find . -type f -size +200000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk ‘{ print $NF “: ” $5 }’
You can also sort the highest first in the list using:
find . -type f -size +200000k -exec ls -lh {} \; 2> /dev/null | awk ‘{ print $NF “: ” $5 }’ | sort -nrk 2,2
Categories :
Scripts Unix
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