Finding files that exceed a given size limit

To display and locate the names of files which exceed a specified size, the find command can be used as display below.

# find directory -size +nnn

Directory        -   Where is the directory to be searched

-size +nnn       -   Is a number of 512-byte blocks. Files which exceed the size denote are listed.

Consider the following example

Finding files which exceed a given size limit

The following example displays how to find files with more than 400 blocks in the current working directory.

# find . -size +400 -print

./Howto/howto.doc

./Howto/howto.doc.backup

./Howto/howtotest.doc

./.record

./Config/configMailappx.doc

./Config/configMailconcepts.doc