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How can I list all files and folders beyond a specified size limit?

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In a partition I have several files and folders, and I can list all those file sizes with du like this:

du -h

But how can I list all the files which are beyond a specific disk space size like 5MB?

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answered 2 Years ago losbu · Accepted Answer

Here is a straight-forward solution in bash, which analyzes the size of both files and folders:

#!/bin/bash



folder="$1"

limit="$2"



IFS=$'

'

for item in `find "$folder"`; do

    size=$(du -s "$item" | cut -f1)

    if [ $size -gt $limit ]; then

        echo $item

    fi

done

first param is the target folder to examine

second param is the limit in kilobytes, where 1K=1024 bytes.