Quickzi: Find files over a certain size on Linux
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 at
10:41 am
Here’s a quick tip for finding files over 100M on Linux.
# find /home/adam/ -size +100M -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{print $5 , $8}'
Note that if you change 100M in the command you can find files with any size. Also, replace /home/adam with any directory you wish.
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If you just need a quick method for finding files over 100M all you need is this:
# find /home/adam/ -size +100M
You can also look for files under 100M:
# find /home/adam/ -size -100M
Or files between 90M and 110M
# find /home/adam/ -size +80M -and -size -110M
find / \( -size 1k -and -size 2M \)
/ -root
\( and \) special character
-and and condition