Re: [gentoo-user] locating large disk files

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:03:41 -0600, Joseph 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 }'
> 
> but I'm getting strange output:
> 13:57: 194M
> 2011: 57M
> 17:05: 31M

File name with spaces will result in awk returning the wrong field, or at
least not the field you expected. Use du as suggested elsewhere.


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Neil Bothwick

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