Instead of '-exec ls' I recommend the -ls or -printf switches. If you
really require the human-formatted size, you can also just quote {} properly.
Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> writes:
> 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
> 2011: 27M
> 06:02: 41M
> 11:31: 21M
> 11:39: 28M
> 22:02: 62M
> 2012: 26M
> 12:53: 104M
> 2012: 26M
> 16:33: 127M
> 21:28: 104M
> 20:21: 61M
> 06:20: 96M
> 2011: 21M
> 08:07: 26M
> 2011: 37M
> 2011: 28M
> 19:34: 93M
> 2013: 42M
> 20:54: 33M
> 2013: 40M
> 06:04: 26M
> 19:42: 190M
> 10:00: 47M
> 13:43: 1.3G
> 10:38: 41M
> 14:31: 41M
> 16:24: 711M
> 2012: 27M
> 08:21: 251M
> 2011: 44M
> 13:53: 651M
> 07:40: 46M
> 13:23: 49M
> 13:41: 355M
> 10:41: 20M
> 2013: 32M
> ...
>
> --
> Joseph
>
--
Erik Mackdanz
