18.14 Find Large Files

Find all files from the current directory that are larger than 100M:

$ find . -size +100M -exec ls -sh {} \;
470M ./github/fred/abcd/temp/multi/multi_test.jsonl
125M ./github/mymodels/primer/primer_1.2.1.mon
418M ./projects/r/data.csv
144M ./projects/data/cans.csv
337M ./projects/training/sample.csv
108M ./projects/home/engaged_s12.mp4

Find all files from the current directory that are larger than 50M and smaller than 100M:

$ find . -size +50M -size -100M -exec ls -sh {} \;
61M ./gitlab/mymodels/sample/goto.model
84M ./projects/r/train.csv
56M ./projects/home/engaged_s11.mp4
60M ./bitbucket/rattle/etc/credit.Rdata

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