How to search for large files >1Gigabyte via command line

[Aaron Gray]

On 13 August 2012 19:53, Jack Craig <jack.craig.aptos at gmail.com> wrote:
> works for me, ...
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> hth...
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> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Jack Craig <jack.craig.aptos at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > find . -type f -size G 1
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>> Interesting... find allows you to input the size that way? In the man
>> page I found an example similar to this:
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>> $ find /usr/share -size +1G
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>> I assume the "+" means bigger than...

Cheers, was someone filling up my httpd error log files for the last
week, not Wireshark log AFAICT !

    du -ahx * | sort -rh | head -30

seems to work well. Will try 'find' to see if its faster.

Aaron