How To Find specific file sizes using the “find” command


Below is the “find”command that looks for specific files in the “home” directory. The following script is finding files that are 500000k or larger

find /home -type f -size +500000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk ‘{ print $9 “: ” $5 }’
The previous command will output a similar result like the following.

/home/userna5/public_html/error_log: 514M
/home/userna5/backup-userna5.tar.gz: 738M

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