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find files larger than 1 GB, everywhere
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find / -type f -size +1000000000c

folengo · 2009-07-05 08:16:16 10
Find the biggest files

Also: * find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5 * find . -type f -exec ls -l {} \; | awk '{print $5 "\t" $9}' | sort -n -r | head -5
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du -sk * | sort -rn | head

ebah80 · 2011-01-03 10:49:40 20
Another way to calculate sum size of all files matching a pattern

Here the pattern is '*.jar', you could pass in any pattern. Another, maybe nicer way to do this is http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1921/summarise-the-size-of-all-files-matching-a-simple-regex You could replace sed with tr Show Sample Output
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```
44
```
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find . -iname '*.jar' | xargs du -ks | cut -f1 | xargs echo | sed "s/ /+/g" | bc

wires · 2009-06-08 14:29:56 6
Convert number of bytes to human readable filesize

Converts a number of bytes provided as input, to a human readable number. Show Sample Output
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```
$ human_filesize 1234567890
1.15 Gb
```
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human_filesize() { awk -v sum="$1" ' BEGIN {hum[1024^3]="Gb"; hum[1024^2]="Mb"; hum[1024]="Kb"; for (x=1024^3; x>=1024; x/=1024) { if (sum>=x) { printf "%.2f %s\n",sum/x,hum[x]; break; } } if (sum<1024) print "1kb"; } '}

ArtBIT · 2011-12-02 18:21:20 5
Summarize size of all files of given type in all subdirectories (in bytes)

This deals nicely with filenames containing special characters and can deal with more files than can fit on a commandline. It also avoids spawning du. Show Sample Output
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```
26715066695
```
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find . -iname '*.jpg' -type f -print0 |perl -0 -ne '$a+=-s $_;END{print "$a\n"}'

unixmonkey10455 · 2010-09-12 13:14:12 4
Find the biggest files

Show the top 10 file size
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find -type f | xargs -I{} du -sk "{}" | sort -rn | head

glaudiston · 2011-01-04 11:10:02 4
How to estimate the storage size of all files not named *.[extension] on the current directory

With this sentence we can estimate the storage size of all files not named *.jpg on the current directory. The syntax is based on Linux, for Unix compliance use: find ./* -prune ! -name '*.jpg' -ls |awk '{TOTAL+=$7} END {print int(TOTAL/(1024^2))"MB"}' We can change the jpg extension for whatever extension what we need Show Sample Output
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```
588MB
```
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -not -iname '*.jpg' -ls |awk '{TOTAL+=$7} END {print int(TOTAL/(1024^2))"MB"}'

mack · 2011-04-26 18:18:37 6
Display the human-readable sizes of all files and folders in the current directory with 3 decimal places

To sort the list by file/directory size, insert `sort -n |` before `awk`. Show Sample Output
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```
   9.543 MiB	bin
   4.000 kiB	boot
  28.323 kiB	dev
  66.523 MiB	etc
 151.247 GiB	home
  17.196 MiB	lib
  17.196 MiB	lib64
   4.000 kiB	media
   4.000 kiB	mnt
   8.000 kiB	opt
 376.264 MiB	root
   4.358 MiB	sbin
   4.000 kiB	selinux
   4.000 kiB	srv
  10.098 MiB	sys
   2.693 MiB	tmp
   2.244 GiB	usr
  72.920 GiB	var
 226.903 GiB	total
```
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du -Lsbc * |awk 'function hr(bytes){hum[1024**4]="TiB";hum[1024**3]="GiB";hum[1024**2]="MiB";hum[1024]="kiB";for(x=1024**4;x>=1024;x/=1024){if(bytes>=x){return sprintf("%8.3f %s",bytes/x,hum[x]);}}return sprintf("%4d B",bytes);}{print hr($1) "\t" $2}'

nst · 2013-08-18 02:28:18 10

Find biggest files in a directory Show Sample Output

find . -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u %-9g %TY-%Tm-%Td+%Tr [%Y] %s %p\n'|sort -nrk8|head

AskApache · 2014-12-10 23:48:20 10

list files recursively by size
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stat -c'%s %n' **/* | sort -n

ysangkok · 2015-08-25 18:23:55 58
BIGGEST Files in a Directory

Way more easy to understand for naive user. Just returns the biggest file with size.
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find . -printf '%s %p\n'|sort -nr| head -1

ranjha · 2014-12-14 15:40:56 9
BIGGEST Files in a Directory
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du -k . | sort -rn | head -11

b0wlninja · 2014-12-29 17:12:25 9
Filesize in bytes

It simply prints the file size in bytes. Show Sample Output
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```
18345
```
0

stat -c %s filename

kxmx · 2015-07-16 06:01:11 9
display 10 biggest open files
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0

lsof / | awk '{ if($7 > 1048576) print $7/1048576 "MB "$9 }' | sort -n -u | tail

lolssl · 2015-10-02 19:43:04 9
Find the biggest files

Show the top file size in human readable form
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find -type f | xargs -I{} du -s "{}" | sort -rn | head | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh "{}"

glaudiston · 2011-01-04 11:10:56 4
Find the biggest files
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find -type f -exec du -sh {} + | sort -rh | head

depesz · 2011-01-04 11:38:29 6

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