how to find file based on size in linux

This can be easily done using the find command. The general syntax is

find . -type f -size  +<size> -exec ls -al {} \;

Here are the suffixes available for the size

b – 512-byte blocks (this is the default if no suffix is used)
c – bytes
w – two-byte words
k – Kilobytes
M – Megabytes
G – Gigabytes

If you dont want to list the size, then you can use the below command also

find . -type f -size  +<size>

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How to find files greater than 1 GB

find . -type f -size +1G -exec ls -al {} \;

This will search in your current directory and subdirectories

If you want to search in /, you can put a command like

find / -type f -size +1G -exec ls -al {} \;

If you want to do it in your home directory, then

find ~/ -type f -size +1G -exec ls -al {} \;

You can provide specific directories also

find /u02 -type f -size +1G -exec ls -al {} \;

find . -type f -size +100M -exec ls -al {} \;

find / -size 0  -exec ls -al {} \;

find . -type f -size -100M -exec ls -al {} \;

You can find this using the above operator explained above

find . -type f -size +100M -size -200M -exec ls -al {} \;

You can specify whatever size is required

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