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From: Erik Mackdanz <erikmack@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] locating large disk files
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:08:37
Message-Id: 87a98c94tf.fsf@msi.mackdanz.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] locating large disk files by Joseph
1 Instead of '-exec ls' I recommend the -ls or -printf switches. If you
2 really require the human-formatted size, you can also just quote {} properly.
3
4 Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> writes:
5
6 > I'm trying to clean up my home directory by locating large disk files. I used:
7 > find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'
8 >
9 > but I'm getting strange output:
10 > 13:57: 194M
11 > 2011: 57M
12 > 17:05: 31M
13 > 2011: 27M
14 > 06:02: 41M
15 > 11:31: 21M
16 > 11:39: 28M
17 > 22:02: 62M
18 > 2012: 26M
19 > 12:53: 104M
20 > 2012: 26M
21 > 16:33: 127M
22 > 21:28: 104M
23 > 20:21: 61M
24 > 06:20: 96M
25 > 2011: 21M
26 > 08:07: 26M
27 > 2011: 37M
28 > 2011: 28M
29 > 19:34: 93M
30 > 2013: 42M
31 > 20:54: 33M
32 > 2013: 40M
33 > 06:04: 26M
34 > 19:42: 190M
35 > 10:00: 47M
36 > 13:43: 1.3G
37 > 10:38: 41M
38 > 14:31: 41M
39 > 16:24: 711M
40 > 2012: 27M
41 > 08:21: 251M
42 > 2011: 44M
43 > 13:53: 651M
44 > 07:40: 46M
45 > 13:23: 49M
46 > 13:41: 355M
47 > 10:41: 20M
48 > 2013: 32M
49 > ...
50 >
51 > --
52 > Joseph
53 >
54
55 --
56 Erik Mackdanz