[Hidden-tech] Mac Tech question

[Seth Seeger]

I'm pretty sure that there are some GUI tools to do this, but if you're 
comfortable on the command line, try this:

sudo find / -size +300M -ls | sort -n -k +7

That will find any files over 300MB and sort them by size.

-Seth



On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Jeff Rutherford wrote:

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