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[ivy1234]

I would like to find the files that are over 10M in size in the system , I know the command "find" can do that , can advise is there any other command / method can do that ? as I know , "find" consumes high system resources .

Thx

[Pete Randall]

Any other command which recursively traverses the I/O subsystem is going to be resource intensive as well. You could come up with some sort of script, using ls -R, piped to awk to capture the size field, piped to a comparison to your criteria - but this is going to consume just as many resources as the (much simpler) find command.

find /startdir -type f -size +100000c |xargs ll

or something like that should do.


Pete

[R.O.]

You can run the find command by cron:

find / -size +10000000c -exec ls -l {} \; > textfile.txt

at low system usage hours. Later, you can review the textfile.

Regards,

[Pete Randall]

Using the "-exec" syntax spawns a subprocess for each and that IS resource intensive. That is why I used the "|xargs" syntax.


Pete

[Dennis Handly]

>Pete: Using the "-exec" syntax spawns a subprocess for each

Right, unless you use "+":
find /startdir -size +10000000c -exec ll {} +

[bullz]

Yes, above commands will help you to find the files which are more than 10M files,

du -akx | sort -nr | more

In genral i use the above command more, to find the max utilization files.

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] |xargs ll

> [...] -exec ls -l {} [...]

> [...] -exec ll {} [...]

Who asked to see the file sizes?