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

[Jack Craig]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

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

i'll see your  du and raise you by ...

du -s <d> | sort -nr | head -30

actually no, not raise at all, just an alternative approach; I start at /
and follow the bloat.

hth, cheers, ...

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