How to search for a file from is size? 

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 2002-11-24 15:42:12 PST
> I need to know a way that I can list all the files starting from /
> that have sizes above e.g. 100Mb.
find / -size +102400k

CrayzeeWulf

How to search for a file from is size? 

> find / -size +102400k

Yeah, that'd work, but for more general use, the -s option to ls might work better. Less to type, anyway. "ls -s | sort -n" will give you a list of all the files in the current directory with size in K prepended, sorted by size with largest last. Add -R to the ls, you'll get a recursive listing.

Matt G