Recursive Find on file size

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1

Is there a way to use the find command to recursively scan directories for files greater than 1Gb in size and print out the directory path and file name only?

Thanks in advance.

2

Some versions of find support extra values for files sizes this is generic
1953125 by 512 byte blocks = 1GB, this produces tow columns = directory name and filename

find /path -size +1953125 -print |
while read fname 
do
   echo "$(dirname $fname)    $(basename $fname)"
done
3

2097151 ?

4

If you have GNU find available then use:

find . -type f -size +1G

Check your find version:

find --version
GNU find version 4.2.27
5

Thanks jim mcnamara, that is great. Do you know if it can be enhanced so that only the directories/files that the executing user id has access to are returned? ie, if a

error is returned, it won't be displayed in the list?

bipinajith, if I type

I get the following error

Thanks for your help guys!

6

Ok, that means you do not have GNU find

You can suppress the error messages by redirecting stderr to /dev/null

find /path -size +1953125 -print 2> /dev/null
7

Thanks bipinajith, that is perfect!