September 2006

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Fri 22 Sep 2006

Find large files

Posted by Jonathan Adjei under LAMP
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Want to search for files over a certain size on your linux box?
find / -xdev  -size +100000k -print

This will find files larger than 100MB within the root and it’s subdirectories without venturing onto other filesystems.

Original tip ..
http://aaltonen.us/archive/2003/04/26/tip-find-large-files/

Wed 20 Sep 2006

chmod directories only

Posted by Jonathan Adjei under LAMP
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Very neat little tip this…

find /dir/to/chmod/all/dirs -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;

Originally found here…