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Asked: 2013-12-05 12:27:21 +0800 CST

How to find all files with size greater than...?

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Is there any GUI software that can explore a tree and find all files with size greater than some amount? Neither Nautilus nor Nemo seem to be able to do this. In my memory, I could do this with PC-Tools in DOS 3.0.

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    • In the shell tools we have find:

      find / -size +1M

      For files over 1 megabyte.

    • And in the GUI's we have the Disk Usage Analitizer (baobab):

      sudo apt-get install baobab
baobad

    There is a bunch more on this question of SuperUser, but for all ends and propose baobad is enough.

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  2. When I need make more free space on servers I use this command. It find all files bigger then 50 MB and "du -h" make berret list of files and "sort -n" after pipe make list numericcaly sorted by file size. 

    find / -type f -size +50M -exec du -h {} \; | sort -n
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  3. Best Answer

    gnome-search-tool is what I use. Very simple. It has the "Size is at least" filter where you can specify minimum file size. See screen print for searching my ISOs folder with a minimum size of 10,000,000 KB in size.

    gnome-search-tool minimum file size

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  4. And if you are looking to search for a particular type of file, use this:

    find . -name *.js -size +1M -ls

    Searches for all files of type .js with a size greater than 1MB

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