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

Mon Jan 14 15:04:01 UTC 2008
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 09:56 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 08:21 +0100, Andreas Kuntzagk wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 13.01.2008, 10:16 +0700 schrieb Fajar Priyanto:
> > > 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?
> > > ><snip>

> May I suggest (g)awk? That way you'll get all, not just 20, of what you
> want.
> 
>     du -s *|sort -rn|gawk --re-interval '/^[[:digit:]]{4,}\t/' -
> 
> This shows dirs with block counts of 1000 or more. And then there is
> perl etc. Usually these threads get long as everyone jumps in with their
> personal favorite, including me here. :-)
> 
> And smaller dirs can be identified with
> 
>     du -s *|sort -rn|gawk --re-interval '/^[[:digit:]]{,3}\t/' -
> 
> BTW, I was surprised that the 4.* implementation defaults required the
> "--re-interval" switch. Hmmm.

BTW, sort can be eliminated if order is unimportant.

> <snip>

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Bill