Finding large files
Today I used the following snippet to find files larger than 1G in my home directory:
find ~ -type f -size +1G -exec \
du -hs {} \; | sort -rh
The find command calls (-exec) the du command for each file (-type f)
that is larger than 1G (-size +1G). The option -hs shows the size
in human readable format for each file. The result is piped to sort
which sorts on the human readable format (-h) in reverse order
(-r).
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