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Shell: Find & remove files bigger than X
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rm_biggies.sh
# k: Kilobyte, M: Megabyte, G: Gigabyte
# +: Bigger than, -: Lower than
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -size +500k -exec rm -f {} \;
# Or better:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -size +50M -delete
# Let's have a look first:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -size +2G -exec ls -lhS {} \; | awk {print $5 "\t" $9}
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