How to find all files with size greater than...?

Is there any GUI software that can explore a tree and find all files with size greater than some amount? Neither Nautilus nor Nemo seem to be able to do this. In my memory, I could do this with PC-Tools in DOS 3.0.


Solution 1:

  • In the shell tools we have find:

    find / -size +1M
    

    For files over 1 megabyte.

  • And in the GUI's we have the Disk Usage Analitizer (baobab):

    sudo apt-get install baobab
    baobad
    

There is a bunch more on this question of SuperUser, but for all ends and propose baobad is enough.

Solution 2:

When I need make more free space on servers I use this command. It find all files bigger then 50 MB and "du -h" make berret list of files and "sort -n" after pipe make list numericcaly sorted by file size.

find / -type f -size +50M -exec du -h {} \; | sort -n

Solution 3:

gnome-search-tool is what I use. Very simple. It has the "Size is at least" filter where you can specify minimum file size. See screen print for searching my ISOs folder with a minimum size of 10,000,000 KB in size.

gnome-search-tool minimum file size

Solution 4:

And if you are looking to search for a particular type of file, use this:

find . -name *.js -size +1M -ls   

Searches for all files of type .js with a size greater than 1MB