On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:51:05PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > I need the command to search for files greater than a given size. Who know how to
>do this on a Red Hat system.
> >
> I don't know about RedHat in particular, but perhaps
> % man find
> could be the info you're looking for. Probably something like
> % find / -size <size>
>
> find is neat!
Indeed.
To find (for example) files of 100 (512-byte) blocks or bigger,
find / -size +100 -print
If you want to use units other than 512-byte blocks, you can put a suffix
on the number: b=blocks, c=chars, w=(2-byte) words, k=kilobytes.
To find files SMALLER than 100 blocks, say "-100" instead of "+100". To find
files of exactly 100 blocks, say "100" without a + or -.
The above example starts in your root directory, and searches every file on
every mounted drive. To start under some other directory, replace the "/"
with the name of the starting directory.
The GNU version of find (used on Linux) doesn't really need the "-print" at
the end, since that's the default action if no other action is specified.
But some other versions won't print anything unless you say "-print".
- Neil Parker, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
