Comments on: How To Find Large Files and Directories in Unix http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/ Learn UNIX Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:01:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: bdk http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-6725 bdk Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:47:41 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/#comment-6725 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. 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 http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-5374 Rubo77 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:56:37 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/#comment-5374 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/ 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 http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-4043 Gleb Reys Sat, 09 May 2009 00:55:46 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/#comment-4043 Andrei, du -sk <DIRNAME> does exactly that, but you need to then sort the output so that it finds the largest. Andrei, du -sk does exactly that, but you need to then sort the output so that it finds the largest.

]]> By: Andrei http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-3461 Andrei Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:06:20 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/#comment-3461 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 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

]]> By: Gleb Reys http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-2490 Gleb Reys Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:35:34 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/#comment-2490 Hi Ben, Glad to have helped! Gleb Hi Ben,
Glad to have helped!

Gleb

]]> By: Ben Harris http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-2475 Ben Harris Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:13:59 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/#comment-2475 Thanks very much. I couldn't remember what the du command was, and spent ages trying to find it again. Cheers :) Thanks very much. I couldn't remember what the du command was, and spent ages trying to find it again. Cheers :)

]]> By: Gleb Reys http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-1233 Gleb Reys Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:35:44 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/#comment-1233 A pleasure to be of some help! A pleasure to be of some help!

]]> By: Klaudio Zic aka Claudio Antonio Valentin Solis http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-1227 Klaudio Zic aka Claudio Antonio Valentin Solis Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:32:37 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/#comment-1227 Your tuition helped me on my EEEPC, a modest monster machine that just needed some extra UNIX scripts to perform fine! Your tuition helped me on my EEEPC, a modest monster machine that just needed some extra UNIX scripts to perform fine!

]]> By: Dave http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-984 Dave Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:52:22 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/#comment-984 How do you search for a directory that could be in any other directory? For example I want to find all "backup" directories but am not sure in which directories they all got saved. How do you search for a directory that could be in any other directory?
For example I want to find all "backup" directories but am not sure in which directories they all got saved.

]]> By: How To Syncronize Directories with Rsync | UNIX Tutorial: Learn UNIX http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-956 How To Syncronize Directories with Rsync | UNIX Tutorial: Learn UNIX Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:46:41 +0000 http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/#comment-956 [...] Finding large files and directories Please share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...] [...] Finding large files and directories Please share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

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