wConfigFinding large files on Linux distributions
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Finding large files on all operating systems is a daily task for systems administrators around the world, it serves a lot of purposes.
I will show multiple ways to do it on various Linux distribution. Simple and makes your life easier.
Pay attention to the size in all examples – change it according to your needs.
RPM Based distributions: Red Hat, Centos, Fedora
Specify path:
find {/path/to/location/} -type f -size +{size-in-kb}k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'
Example for specific path:
find /home/http/logs -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'
Current Dir:
find . -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'
Debian or Debian based ( Ubuntu and various other deb based distros )
Specify path:
find {/path/to/location} -type f -size +{file-size-in-kb}k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'
Current Dir:
find . -type f -size +10000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'
Largest files in directory:
ls -lSh | less
du -xakh .|sort -n|tail -10
du -k | sort -n | perl -ne 'if ( /^(\d+)\s+(.*$)/){$l=log($1+.1);$m=int($l/log(1024)); printf ("%6.1f\t%s\t%25s %s\n",($1/(2**(10*$m))),(("K","M","G","T","P")[$m]),"*"x (1.5*$l),$2);}'
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -lSh | head -10