[ale] my 1st shell script - chk big files

John Pilman jcpilman at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 11:58:06 EDT 2011


> find / -type f -size +100M | grep -v /swapfile | grep -v /sys/devices |
> grep -v /proc >> file_list.txt

Instead of searching entire directories and then filtering them with
grep, you could exclude them from the search.  That should speed
thongs up.

Find / -type f -path /sys/devices -prune -o -path /proc -prune -o
-size +100M |grep -v /swapfile >> file_list

...John


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