How to find big files?

[volcano]

Hi, I have a partition whose storage is nearly full. What commands could I type to find any file being larger than, say, 100MB?

Thank you!

 

[tikual]

man find

tikual

 

[unixrocks]

find * -size N -exec rm {} ';'


Where N is the size of the file in blocks (512 bytes per block). You can do the maths

 

[alray]

Hi,

If you want to have a listing of the files sorted by size, you can use the following command(s). It will list the files in decreasing order. If you need to do the same thing recursively, you could use the second one.

ls -l | grep \^- | sort -nr -k 5 | more

ls -lR | grep \^- | sort -nr -k 5 | more

I hope this helps.

Ray

 

[bsek]

#find ${PWD} -type f -mount -size +10000000c -exec ls -l {} \; >/tmp/bigfiles$$

You will find all bigfiles more than 10mb in /tmp/bigfiles