Continuing our series on handy commands to know os one that helps you find large files on your server via SSH.
SSH command for finding files larger than a certain file size
The command for this is quite easy, for our example we will assume you want to find all files that are larger than 1 GB in size and geta list you can use.
Step one: Go into your SSH session and type:
find / -type f -size +1048576k -exec ls -lh {} ; 2> /dev/null | awk ‘{ print $NF “: ” $5 }’ | sort -nrk 2,2
Done! That was easy.
