Finding Large Files

Published

2025-01-24

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This section is under development. Thank you for your patience.

Scenario: You’ve been asked to discover any files over a certain size. This could be due concerns over disk space, performance optimization, backup and recovery, network load reduction, compliance, auditing, a system migration, user quotas, or internal data management policies (usually related to cost).

find

du & sort

awk & ls

ncdu

grep & find or du