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Old 12-27-2010, 03:19 AM   #1
Mr. Alex
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Question Sort files by size

Here's the command to find all the files bigger then ~200 MB and show the size:
Code:
find /some-dir/ -size +200000k | xargs ls -laAh
But it doesn't work for those paths which contain spaces. Can I make it do somehow?
 
Old 12-27-2010, 03:31 AM   #2
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I'd tend to use du e.g.

Code:
find . -size +200000k -exec du -h {} \;
 
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Old 12-27-2010, 03:46 AM   #3
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Thanks! A little expanding:
Code:
find / -size +200000k -exec du -h {} \; | sort -nr
 
  


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