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Old 04-27-2016
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Originally Posted by aimy
Thanks a lot again Mr. Don.

So meaning if I want get a list of all files that exceed 500MB, this should be the command right:
Code:
$ find 104857600 -xdev -size +104857600c -exec ls -lad {} +|sort -n -k 5,5 > LARGE.rst

But why did I got this error returned:
Code:
find: cannot stat 104857600

Thank you.
The 1st operand to find is the name of a file (usually of type directory) to be tested or operated on by the primaries specified by later operands. The diagnostic you got is saying that find was not able to find the file named 104857600 that you specified as a starting point for a list of files to be processed.

One would think that if you were looking for files larger than 500Mb, you would either want -size +524288000c (500*1024*1024 bytes) or -size +1024000 (500*1024*1024/512 512-byte blocks). Using -size +104857600c would be looking for files larger than 100Mb instead of 500Mb.
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