How to find files based on size in Unix

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1. vinay

   14 years ago

   Hi,
   nice post

   what is the relation between 100 and +200000 ??

   If i have to do for 10mb what is the size number ?

   Thx

2. Gavin Soorma

   14 years ago

   Hi Vinay – it is based on the Unix block size – in this AIX machine (as in most other cases as well) it is 512 bytes

   so the command below will list all files > 10 KB using the +20 flag in the ‘size’ command

   testdb:/u01/oracle/scripts> find . -size +20 -exec ls -l {} \;
   -rw-r—– 1 oracle dba 57344 Sep 9 2004 ./20040910/exp_prospector_schema_gnu1a.exp
   -rw-r—– 1 oracle dba 10713771 Sep 10 2004 ./20040910/exp_prospector_schema_gnu1a_rowsY.exp.Z
   -rw-r—– 1 oracle dba 16826 Sep 20 2004 ./20040920/edify_userprofile_20040920.dmp.Z
   -rw-r—– 1 oracle dba 102400 Sep 24 2004 ./20040924/test.imp
   -rw-r—– 1 oracle dba 106496 Feb 2 2006 ./cr19625_20060202/edify_userprofile.dmp
   -rw-r—– 1 oracle dba 71016 Jul 8 2008 ./p5632264_10203_AIX64-5L.zip
   -rw-r–r– 1 oracle dba 283359 Aug 18 2008 ./tutorial.sql
   testdb:/u01/oracle/scripts>

   This command will list files > 10 MB

   testdb:/u01/oracle/scripts> find . -size +2000 -exec ls -l {} \;
   -rw-r—– 1 oracle dba 10713771 Sep 10 2004 ./20040910/exp_prospector_schema_gnu1a_rowsY.exp.Z