finding large files

[Chris Baugh]

does anyone know the best way of finding files where the size > 1Mb, ordering by size

I've used the following

ls -lR *|awk '{ if ( $5 > 1000000) print $0 } '|sort -n -k5,5

but this doesn't give the full path of the files

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi,

db001:# cd /var
db001:/var# find . -size +1000 -exec ls -l {} \;

Robert-Jan.

[Stefan Farrelly]

find . -size +1000000c -print

Will list all files, and their path, which are over 1MB. To sort change to;

find . -size +1000000c -exec ls -l {} \; | sort -n -k5,5

[Darren Prior]

du -ak | awk '{ if ( $1 > 1000) print $0 } '|sort -n

will give you the size and full path, however it includes dirs as well as files, so you'd need to add some extra scripting if you want to remove them.

regards,

Darren.