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Old 08-04-2004, 08:18 PM   #1
corley
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Search for File

I was wondering, is there an easy way to search your entire system for files that exceed a certain filesize ? Thanks.
 
Old 08-04-2004, 08:37 PM   #2
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Yeah - check out the man page for 'find' and the argument/test for '-size'. Something like:
find / -size +1000k
 
Old 08-04-2004, 08:40 PM   #3
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Hi.

Try:
find / -size +???k
to find files which are over ???KB

Dave

Edit: Too late!
Last edited by ilikejam; 08-04-2004 at 08:42 PM.
 
  


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