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Linux find largest file in directory recursively using find/du

last updated September 19, 2018 in CentOS, Debian / Ubuntu, Linux, RedHat and Friends, Suse

I have 500GB SSD installed on my Linux server. My web server is running out of the disk space. I need to find a biggest or largest file concerning file size on the disk. How do I find largest file in a directory recursively using the find command?

How to find and tar files into a tar ball

last updated December 27, 2017 in BASH Shell, Linux, UNIX

I would like to find all documents file *.doc and create a tarball of those files and store in /nfs/backups/docs/file.tar. Is it possible to find and tar files on a Linux or Unix-like system?

How to find all hard links in a directory on Linux

last updated February 25, 2017 in BASH Shell, CentOS, Debian / Ubuntu, File system, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, RedHat and Friends, Suse, UNIX

I have a file named /etc/passwd i and I would like to find all hard links to this file in a directory. How do I find out all other hard links to the /etc/passwd in /backups/ directory? How can find all hard links to a given file using Linux or Unix command line option?

Use BASH nullglob To Verify *.c Files Exists or Not In a Directory

last updated March 1, 2009 in BASH Shell, CentOS, Debian / Ubuntu, File system, FreeBSD, Linux, RedHat and Friends, Suse, Troubleshooting, Ubuntu Linux, UNIX

Can you explain me usage of nullglob variable under BASH? How do I check for any *.c files in any directory?

Solaris UNIX Case-Insensitive Find File Search

last updated February 6, 2009 in BASH Shell, File system, Solaris-Unix, Troubleshooting, UNIX

I‘d like to match all filename like foo.c, FOO.C, fOO.c, Foo.C and so on using find command under UNIX. How do I do a case-insensitive find search under Sun Solaris / OpenSolaris UNIX systems?

Find command: Exclude or Ignore Files (e.g. Ignore All Hidden .dot Files )

last updated December 29, 2015 in AIX, BASH Shell, CentOS, Debian / Ubuntu, File system, FreeBSD, HP-UX Unix, Linux, OpenBSD, Programming, RedHat and Friends, Storage, Suse, UNIX

Q. How do I ignore hidden .dot files while searching for files? How do I ignore or exclude certain files while running Linux / UNIX find command?

UNIX Find A File Command

last updated September 28, 2017 in BASH Shell, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris-Unix, UNIX

I am a new Sun Solaris UNIX user in our Lab. I would like to know more about finding files from the shell prompt. How do I find a file under UNIX operating systems using bash or ksh shell?