File Search

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Feb 17 22:13:23 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 06:24 -0800, edwarner99 at yahoo.com wrote:
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:50:16 +0000
> > From: Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com>
> > Subject: Re: File Search
<snip>
> > man find
> > :)
> > which should allow you to do something like
> > 
> > find / -type f -size +4M
> > 
> > to find files bigger than 4M
> > 
> > regards
> > 
> > Stuart
> > -- 
> > Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX
> 
> Syntax was wrong so I substituted +4000k instead.
> Thanks for your help.

There are many ways to do it, and yours is one.

However, I am curious.  What version of FC are you running that the use
of M in the find -size option will not work?   Your find tool must be
ancient to not have that in it's parameters to -size.

Jeff




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