How to find big new files

[Remko Oosenbrug]

One of my filesystems is running out of space repeatedly. So I want to search for files that has been created for the last week or so and put them in a list sorted on size. How can I do that??

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi there.
Try this :
find / -mtime 1 ( modified yesterday )
or
find / -size c 1000000 ( 1 million chars )
find / -size n 1000000 ( 1 million blocks)

Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[Robin Wakefield · Accepted solution]

Hi Remko,

Try the following:

find /filesystem -mtime -7 -type f | xargs ll | sort +4n

Rgds, Robin.

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

find / -type f -mtime -7 -size +1000000c

will find all cretated or modifyed last 7 days.

[Wodisch]

Hello,

the attached script will tell you ALL added/deleted or
modified files...
You have to provide two lists: BEFORE and AFTER
After the test, the new AFTER list becomes the next
BEFORE list.

HTH,
Wodisch