On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:03:41 -0600 Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to clean up my home directory by locating large disk > files. I used: find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk > '{ print $8 ": " $5 }' Take a look here regarding why you should never parse ls' output: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs You can use ncdu or xdiskusage (both available in portage) to get more useful output. Both will allow you to track down large folders, not just single files (for example cache folders tend to hold a large amount of tiny files, which may collectively amount for a large chunk of your hard disk space).