find command

[tty0]

Hi all,
im new to linux and i have a bit of a problem with one of the servers we have for websites. I understand that the server logs access and transfer are made by the web user account. However during the past 12 months the web account file usage has gone through the roof.

So my pronblem is that i need to search for all files greater than a certain size lets say 5Mb with web as the user. I have managed to dump the output of a search for files on the web user account but the list is exhaustive.

could anyone point me in the right directtion to dump another list for only files greater than a certain size please?

Thanks very much
chris

'mi casa es su casa'
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[Deleted]

This will work for you.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use File::Find;

my %size;
find(
    sub {
        $size{$File::Find::name} = -s if -f;
    },
    @ARGV
);
my @sorted = sort { $size{$b} <=> $size{$a} } keys %size;
splice @sorted, 20 if @sorted > 20;
foreach (@sorted) {
    printf "%10d %s\n", $size{$_}, $_;
}

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[Deleted]

Would be helpful it you knew how to use it.

% script.pl /root_folder_to_search/

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[SamBones]

Try this...

find /start/dir -type f -user web -size +5000000c -print

This will list all files owned by the user "web" that are over 5 million bytes.

Another way to find your largest files is this...

du -ok | sort -rn | head -30

This will give you the top 30 directories and how much disk space is taken by the files in it.