On 14 July 2014 6:53:30 AM AEST, Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 07/13/14 23:25, Dimitri Semitsoglou-Tsiapos wrote: >>On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:03:41 -0600 >>Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to clean up my home directory by locating large disk >>> files. I used: find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk >>> '{ print $8 ": " $5 }' >> >>Take a look here regarding why you should never parse ls' output: >>http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs >> >>You can use ncdu or xdiskusage (both available in portage) to get more >>useful output. Both will allow you to track down large folders, not >>just single files (for example cache folders tend to hold a large >>amount of tiny files, which may collectively amount for a large chunk >>of your hard disk space). >> > >Thanks folks, so in this case I guess: >find / -type f -size +20000k -exec du -h {} \; > >is the winner (it does the trick).
Pipe that through sort -h to get the files sorted by size -- :B