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Adding up sizes of directories using bash is inconsistent
First, I got the total size of folder /my-downloads:
$ du -sh /my-downloads
304G /my-downloads
As you can see, it's 304G.
Then, I wanted to find out the total size of all immediate directories ...
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find with du -sch and very many files
I have large folder structure and need to get the size of a certain subset. The directories I need to count are defined by having specific subdirectories:
find . \( -iname a -or ... \) -printf "\&...
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xargs running more than one command?
Is it possible to use xargs to run more than one command? The only related information I found was this question, but the answer was not related to xargs.
I'm running a simple
du / -ah | sort -r -n | ...
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List the largest and latest 20 files on a drive
I have a disk filling up which has many large files on it so I want to find only the latest and largest 20 files on the disk. How can I do this?
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why isn't my 'find -exec du' working?
I want to get the disk usage of a directory tree, excluding branches that begin with '.', and I will eventually want to run this over ssh, so I prefer to not use a pipe. When I run the following, I ...
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How to calculate disk usage filtering by pattern (e.g., *.JPG)?
How can I calculate disk space consumed only by some files of a directory recursively?
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No space left on device when moving 700k files to a single directory within the same FS
I use the following command to find and move a huge number of files on my server:
find SomeDir/ -maxdepth 10 -type f -mtime +90 -exec mv {} SomeDir2/ \;
After moving about 700,000 files, I get this ...
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Readable format of file sizes using the Find command
To see human readable output, I can use the following command –
du command -h option : Display sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K, 234M, 2G).
$ du -hsx * | sort -rh | head -10
The sample output ...
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Exclude directories for du command / Index all files in a directory
My goal is rather simple: I want to create a small database of all files/directories within a big directory.
After looking for a tool suited I couldn't find anything but the good ol' du. I figured out ...
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Linux show files in directory larger than 1 GB and show size
I am trying to find a command that displays files larger than 1 GB and displays those files ordered by size. I have tried find . -maxdepth 2 -type f -size +1G -print0 |xargs -0 du -h |sort -rh but for ...
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Linux find command - how to find directories by size?
Can find return results based on the size of directories?
Below command is working fine as expected -
find * -type f -size +10M -exec ls -hlSr {} \+
But on applying the same to directories its not ...
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Measuring disk usage of specific file types per each directory (recursively, as a demo for 'du --include')
This is my working code, but I believe it's not optimized - there must be a way to complete the job much faster than this:
find . -type f -iname '*.py' -printf '%h\0' |
sort -z -u |
xargs -r -0 -I{...
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calculate total used disk space by files older than 1000 days using find
We have more than 4 years of data in our system. We need to move 2 years old files and directories in a new repository. Our requirement is needed to know how many TB of data from Jan 2017 to as of now ...
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List Top 20 Largest Files in a Specific Directory
I am trying to display the top 20 largest files in a specific directory. I want to include all sub directories but not the actual directories themselves. (I only want files.) I have been trying to ...
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Get the exact size of files retrieved by find output
My shell engine is either Busybox 1.31.0 or bash 3.2
I need to get the size of the files retrieved from find command.
I've been trying to find only files, which have been modified more than 60 days ...
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