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

[Paul Chambers]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but won't that only find large individual 
files? What if a directory (or subtree) has a very large number of small 
to medium-sized files? (e.g. someone's music or photo collection). The 
docs I've found for find's -size option refer to file size, no 
discussion of behavior with directories.

My goal here is to quickly find what's consuming the disk space, and in 
my experience, it's not usually huge individual files.

-- Paul

Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Paul Chambers on 1/14/2009 3:54 PM:
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> > 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.
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> 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:
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> find . -size $(( 1024 * 1024 ))c
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