Linux: Find files by size
Linux List All Large Files
To finds all files over 50,000KB (50MB+) in size and display their names, along with size, use following syntax:
Syntax for RedHat / CentOS / Fedora Linux
find {/path/to/directory/} -type f -size +{size-in-kb}k -exec ls -lh {} ; | awk ‘{ print $9 “: ” $5 }’
Search or find big files Linux (50MB) in current directory, enter:
$ find . -type f -size +50000k -exec ls -lh {} ; | awk ‘{ print $9 “: ” $5 }’
Search in my /var/log directory:
# find /var/log -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} ; | awk ‘{ print $9 “: ” $5 }’
Syntax for Debian / Ubuntu Linux
find {/path/to/directory} -type f -size +{file-size-in-kb}k -exec ls -lh {} ; | awk ‘{ print $8 “: ” $5 }’
Search in current directory:
$ find . -type f -size +10000k -exec ls -lh {} ; | awk ‘{ print $8 “: ” $5 }’
Sample output:
./.kde/share/apps/akregator/Archive/http___blogs.msdn.com_MainFeed.aspx?Type=AllBlogs.mk4: 91M
./out/out.tar.gz: 828M
./.cache/tracker/file-meta.db: 101M
./ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso: 700M
./vivek/out/mp3/Eric: 230M
Above commands will lists files that are are greater than 10,000 kilobytes in size. To list all files in your home directory tree less than 500 bytes in size, type:
$ find $HOME -size -500b
OR
$ find ~ -size -500b
To list all files on the system whose size is exactly 20 512-byte blocks, type:
# find / -size 20
Perl hack: To display large files
Jonathan has contributed following perl code print out stars and the length of the stars show the usage of each folder / file from smallest to largest on the box:
du -k | sort -n | perl -ne ‘if ( /^(d+)s+(.*$)/){$l=log($1+.1);$m=int($l/log(1024)); printf (“%6.1ft%st%25s %sn”,($1/(2**(10*$m))),((“K”,”M”,”G”,”T”,”P”)[$m]),”*”x (1.5*$l),$2);}’
ls command: finding the largest files in a directory
You can also use ls command:
$ ls -lS
$ ls -lS | less
$ ls -lS | head +10
ls command: finding the smallest files in a directory
Use ls command as follows:
$ ls -lSr
$ ls -lSr | less
$ ls -lSr | tail -10
By: Vivek Gite