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Re: --min-size option for du (patch)


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: --min-size option for du (patch)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:44:33 -0700
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According to Paul Chambers on 1/14/2009 3:54 PM:
> I'd like to submit the attached small patch for du. it adds a
> '--min-size' option, which can be used to filter the output to only
> include items of that size or greater.

It seems like find(1) might be a better tool for this.  It has the
advantage of already being standardized, so you wouldn't be relying on a
non-portable extension.  For example, this is the POSIX-mandated way to
find all files that are at least a mebibyte in size:

find . -size $(( 1024 * 1024 ))c

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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