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Old 07-01-2009
ChatPerdu ChatPerdu is offline
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Code:
find . -type d -size +2

I get this:
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./99584B685FF3/bbb.app
./D3B9BA1F472/www.app
./830F3FF6E3F9/Documents
./A754A83053D/www.app
...
For some reason, it finds stuff one directory lower... "99584B685FF3" is the directory I am aiming for, so I tried

Code:
find . -type d -size +2 -maxdepth 1

I get:
. Shouln't it be something like ./99584B685FF3

and for

Code:
find . -type d -size +2 -maxdepth 2

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./99584B685FF3/bbb.app
./D3B9BA1F472/www.app
./830F3FF6E3F9/Documents
./A754A83053D/www.app
...

What could be the reason. I initially thought directories were just "special files" in UNIX and do not have a size. But the "Documents" shown is really a directory.

Thanks for suggesting but still no go. Furthermore, I am losing all the size sorting - largest directory first
Last edited by ChatPerdu; 07-01-2009 at 06:40 PM.. Reason: wrong info posted