Comments on: Linux / UNIX: Finding and locating files with find command part # 2

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:53:09 +0000

The find command for setuid files isnt that useful. Almost never is the setuid bit the only bit set. The better way is
# find / -perm -u=s
or
# find / -perm -4000

Those will find any files with the setuid bit set. Not just files with only the setuid bit set.

By: Dotcode

Dotcode — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:26:22 +0000

i have tried to write a bash script for linux that would tell us the largest file in a folder.
someone who can should help me. tanks

By: kashyap

kashyap — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:57:32 +0000

How to exlude a directory while executing the find command

By: jagadeesh

jagadeesh — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:41:36 +0000

how to redirect the running log file info to other file

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:42:47 +0000

Valter, you are probably using HP-UX which does not accept (…+20000k) k for the size to work

By: Valter

Valter — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:06:46 +0000

In my system I had to remove the k from the size to work.

By: William Bequette

William Bequette — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:39:47 +0000

Very nice little piece of info.
Is there a way to escape file name spaces?
Output stops with colon at first win file name space for each file found.
Thanks FnG

By: .:: a few thoughts on the subject by rob wright ::. » links for 2007-05-27

.:: a few thoughts on the subject by rob wright ::. » links for 2007-05-27 — Sun, 27 May 2007 03:17:11 +0000

[...] Linux: Finding/locating files with find command part # 2 | nixCraft find / -type f -size +20000k May 26th 2007 Posted to Links [...]

By: Diesel

Diesel — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:11:52 +0000

Thank you very much for this snip!!! I was looking all over for something this small and simple to tell me what I needed to know in a clear manner!

Thanks Again!

By: JeffB

JeffB — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:40:39 +0000

Thanks a bunch, that command string was just what I was looking for, and I had looked at around 20 other sites with nothing near as good. (As Sharjeel said $9 is the filename, at least on my system.)

To tweak the output and have the file sizes in a column, add this to the end:

| column -t

this just expands the tabs to even the columns out.

By: Sharjeel

Sharjeel — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:05:00 +0000

The last hack for finding large files should be as follows

find / -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} ; | awk ‘{ print $9 “: ” $5 }’

–
Sharjeel
http://www.sharjeel.net

By: Axxs

Axxs — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:48:00 +0000

the last hack there is a nice one .. great having sizes show :)