Comments on: How To Find Large Files and Directories in Unix

By: UnixSapp

UnixSapp — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:41:12 +0000

Sorry. It's the mtime that is giving the issues. It is Nov 3 and it is now deleting files from Oct 31. I thought that mtime +2 would have deleted the files on Nov 1 or 2 at the latest?

By: UnixSapp

UnixSapp — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:30:13 +0000

I am running this cleanup script to keep my Solaris drop box well, cleaned up.

#!/bin/ksh
#
userdir=/clocal/ftp/user

for i in `ls ${userdir}`
do
find ${userdir}/${i}/incoming -mtime +2 -type f -ls
find ${userdir}/${i}/incoming -mtime +2 -type f -exec rm {} \;
find ${userdir}/${i}/incoming -mtime +2 -type f -size +200557600c -ls
find ${userdir}/${i}/incoming -mtime +2 -type f -size +200557600c -exec rm {} \;
done

But, if I think it misses a lot of filenames with spaces in them (People t4ransferring DOS files). Any suggestions to catch those files as well?

Mike

By: Partha Datta

Partha Datta — Thu, 05 May 2011 06:48:02 +0000

For finding the directory size I use a small script.
for i in `ls -F | grep '/$'` ; do
du -sh `echo "$i"`
done

By: carrieDMS

carrieDMS — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:35:01 +0000

du -h | sort -n -r | head -n 20

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By: branchenverzeichnis online

branchenverzeichnis online — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 09:55:18 +0000

What a nice post. I really love reading these types or articles. I can?t wait to see what others have to say.

By: bdk

bdk — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:47:41 +0000

Find the sizes of only directories sorted by size:

find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 du -sk | sort -rn > dir-sizes.txt&

If you just want the 50 or so largest add '| head -n50' before piping it to the output file. Sizes are in KB for ez sort and reading.

By: Rubo77

Rubo77 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:56:37 +0000

thx,
i use this to find large files on my webserver

want to see the sizes directly and dont want to see files in the folder /download/, so i use:

find /var/www/ -type f -name "*" -size +100M -exec du -h '{}' \;|grep -v /download/

By: Gleb Reys

Gleb Reys — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:55:46 +0000

Andrei, du -sk does exactly that, but you need to then sort the output so that it finds the largest.

By: Andrei

Andrei — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:06:20 +0000

Please tell me how can i find the largest directory through a bash script who will sum the file in the folder(only the final directories). Thank you