Question

I’m trying to write a scenario which will input a number and then find all the files which size if bigger than this number.

So far I’ve got this:

read $size
find . -size "+{$size}c"

The above code doesn’t work. What should I do instead?

Answer 1

You can do something like this to find files bigger than your number in the variable –

find . -size +"${size}"c 

You can also do something like this –

awk -v mysize="$size" '{if ($5>=mysize) print $9}' <(ls -l)

You can modify ls -l to provide path of a particular folder and add more options to doing search recursively.