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Tech Tip: Find Directories Over a Certain Size

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 2 comments
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It's fairly simple to find large files on your system using commands such as find, but if you're looking for directories over a certain size find won't help you. The Perl script presented here can help you track down those explosively large directories.

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caitlyn ·
That's a nice little Perl script. It's short, clean, easy to understand, and very useful.
herzeleid ·
Not bad. I'm trying to get myself using python though - might be a nice little exercise to port it.

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