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Easy points for all...

Oleg Goudovany_1 — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 06:28:18 GMT

Hi. All!

Excuse me but I can't "find"
files with some size.:(
I type below:
#find . -size c1000000
and get:
./.dt/sessions/current/dt.session
./.dt/Trash/files.err
./.dt/.Printers/Hardcopy_Print
./.dt/.Printers/Line_Print
./.dt/.Printers/List_Print
./.dt/.Printers/OnlineB_Print
./.dt/.Printers/Postscript_Print
./.dt/.Printers/Printer1_Print
./.dt/.Printers/Printer2_Print

Where is a mistake?
(I need to find files with some size)
Thanx in advance. Oleg

Re: Easy points for all...

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 06:32:04 GMT

HI

find . -size +1000000c -exec ls -l {} \;

Will do it.
Change size to suit.

Paula

Re: Easy points for all...

Robin Wakefield — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 06:36:18 GMT

Hi Oleg,

Nearly correct:

find . -size +1000000c | xargs ll -d

Rgds, Robin.

Re: Easy points for all...

Michael Tully — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 06:42:22 GMT

Hi Oleg,

try this:

find . -size +1000000c | xargs ll

HTH
-Michael

Re: Easy points for all...

Oleg Goudovany_1 — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 06:56:23 GMT

Hi!
Sorri but in case:
#find . -size +1000000c -exec ls -l {} \;
I got nothing. :(

In case:
#find . -size +1000000c | xargs ll
I got list of files of folder with sizes. Size - any.

Whats up?

Thanx.Oleg

Re: Easy points for all...

Oleg Goudovany_1 — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 06:57:24 GMT

Re: Easy points for all...

Robin Wakefield — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 07:12:26 GMT

Hi Oleg,

This indicates that you have no files greater than 1000000 bytes within your current directory.

Don't forget to use "xargs ll -d", NOT "xargs ll". Try reducing the number down if you want to see some output.

find . -size +500000c | xargs ll -d

Rgds, Robin

Re: Easy points for all...

Andreas Voss — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 07:13:00 GMT

Hi,

when you do:

find . -size +1000000
it searches for files greater then 1000000 Bytes (1MB)
If you only whant to list files not dirs use:
find . -type f -size +1000000c

Regards

Re: Easy points for all...

Oleg Goudovany_1 — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:05:31 GMT

Hi!
It is a shame to me...
I has mixed "/- root folder" - and ". - current folder" and I found files with sizes >1 Mb where isnt.
Excuse me. ITS WORK!!
Thanx all.
But I'm interesting - what to do command:
find . -size +1000000c -exec ls -l {} \;

Oleg.

Re: Easy points for all...

Santosh Nair_1 — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:10:03 GMT

Not sure what you're asking...if you're asking what this command does, then, the find portion finds files starting in the present directory (.) that is larger than 1000000 characters (size +1000000c) and then executes the ls -l command on these files (-exec ls -l {}). I would also check to see if this is a file (-type f).

-Santosh

Re: Easy points for all...

Robin Wakefield — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:51:59 GMT

Hi,

One point to remember. When you ask find to process a lot of files, the "xargs" method is a lot more efficient, because it will collect the filenames as multiple arguments within one command (or as many as will fit per line). "-exec" will spawn one process per file.

Rgds, Robin.

Re: Easy points for all...

Bill Hassell — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:37:13 GMT

Before you go looking for large files, you should always start by looking for big directories. Big directories are more important since they may not contain big files but instead, contain hundreds or thousands of smaller files and they may need to be purged. Use this:

du -kx . | sort -rn > /tmp/du.root

Now the largest directories will be at the top. Note that the root filesystem must have only 3 big directories: /sbin /etc /dev. Any other big directory is in the wrong place and must be moved. And /dev should be less than 100, typically less than 50. If it is very large, there is a mistake, usually a misspelled device file such as /dev/rmt/om rather than 0m.

Now / may be your root's $HOME directory in which case, root's home may contain a lot of unnecessary files. To make things easier to identify and to remove the possibility of a mistake using rm, move root's $HOME to another directory, perhaps /root.

Re: Easy points for all...

Oleg Goudovany_1 — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 02:21:41 GMT

To Paula
Excuse me for small points - your message was useful and late answer - my internet traffic has been low. :(
How I can "to compensate" it?

Oleg