A number of linux directory commands useful for tidying up your media library

Advanced linux directory search commands

A number of linux directory commands useful for tidying up your media library

Find all directories with contents less then 50mb.md

Find and list all directories whose contents is less then a particular size.

For example, say you want to scan your TV Shows Library to find any directories which only contain an image and an ampty season folder but no video files.

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec du -ms {} + | awk '$1 <= 50' | cut -f 2-

if satisfied, add the following to delete all those directories

| xargs -d \\n rm -rf

Find and list all directories which contain more then 1 file bigger then X size.md

Find and list all directories which contain more then 1 file bigger then X size.

For example, say you want to scan your Movies library to find any directories which may have 2 or more copies of that movie - a conventional "Sort by Dir Size" approach could show you directories with only 1 large file.

find . -type d ! -empty \
-exec sh -c 'count=$(find "$1" -type f -size +100M | wc -l); [ $count -ge 2 ]' _ {} \; -print

sort directories by total size of directory.md

du -hs * | sort -rh