[CentOS] "find" switch to find files of a certain size?

Bill Campbell centos at celestial.com
Sun Jan 13 03:33:47 UTC 2008


On Sun, Jan 13, 2008, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
>On Thursday 10 January 2008 23:21:55 techlists at comcast.net wrote:
>> Is there a switch in "find" (or some other command besides find) that'll
>> let you find files larger than a specified size?
>>
>> My file system is 88% full and I'd like to see where the biggest space
>> hoggers are.
>
>I also found this on the net:
>du /path/to/anywhere/* -hs | grep [0-9]M | sort -rn | head -20
>

I usually use something like:

find /mountpoint -xdev -size +10000 > someplacenotfull

Bill
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