Find file by size - MdNor/rocksoft GitHub Wiki

How to find file by size on Linux. Useful to detect file that eat up your HDD.

find {directory} -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

1) Find files larger than 100MB

find / -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'