Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello everybody,
i'm dummy for unix but i want to learn something.
i want to search the working directory and its subdirectories( all ) to find the files which are more than 1024 bytes.
So which commands must i learn?
Thanks to all.

you can do that with the find command. here is what you could start off with.

Code:

 find . -size 2

the above code will find all the files starting from the current directory and all the sub directories. with the byte size closer to 1024 bytes {1 block = 512 bytes)

find . -type f -size +1024c

find files of type "regular file" which are bigger than 1024 bytes

Hi folks,
I was wondering if you could tell me how to use find to locate a file without knowing the directory of the file.

I tried using find . -name filename* but I had to ctrl+c after several minutes.

Would that have eventually worked (providing the file actually exists), or do you know of a better way to search?

Also, can you advise me how I could pipe the output to a .txt file?
Thanks!

Yes it would of enventually worked. Find searches all files in all directories and sub-directories

On HP-UX, you have to enclose your query between double quotes "file*" but on linux you do not when using wildcards.

On linux oses you can use locate which maintain an index of your files which will find them pretty much instantly (but you need to keep locate's database updated)

You should try to play with the command to learn is behavior, create yourself a test directory with subdirectories and file in them so you can different type of search

good luck !

Thanks Snerge it worked perfectly!
Can you advise how I could pipe the output to a .log or .txt file?
I'll need to ftp these results as the list is over 5,000 hits long.

Always a pleasure to help !

find . -name "file*" > ouput.txt

You can use the > file.txt syntax with pretty much any command ....

ls -al > result.txt
netstat -an > result.txt

so on ...