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06-28-2009

Arunprasad Arunprasad is offline

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Hi Scottn,

I was successful with:

Code:

MAX_FILE_LIMIT=1073741824
find $FILE_SYSTEM -type f -size +"$MAX_FILE_LIMIT"k -ls -xdev

Hopefully, the same with G option will also work.-but capital G also works? i havn't tried.

Can you clear me, why this code:

Code:

MAX_FILE_LIMIT=1099511627776
find $FILE_SYSTEM -type f -size +"$MAX_FILE_LIMIT"c -ls -xdev 2>/dev/null

listed the files which are lesser than the given size.

I suspect, there is some limitation and that was restricting this find command to process normally with the given size and so it started listing all files from smaller to greater..... - i dont know, whether 6 GB is the smallest file at that time, but it started picking from that size.

Any thoughts will be very helpful for me!

Thanks.