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> -- Bill