[Hidden-tech] Mac Tech question

[Gary King]

The unix findtool can also do this. On OS X use should be able to use  
spotlight for better response time.

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On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk at bio.umass.edu>  
wrote:

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> Jeff Rutherford wrote:
>> Can someone answer this question for me. My hard drive is quickly  
>> filling up, and I need to delete files, documents, etc. to free up  
>> space.
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>> How can I search across my entire hard drive (not just specific  
>> folders) and sort files by the file size? So I can easily find the  
>> largest files on my machine wherever they may be.
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> how are you with unix tools?
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> open a window in the terminal application. then enter:
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> du -k /  2>/dev/null  |  grep  '^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'  |  sort -n   
> |  less
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> that ought to do it, though you might have to tweak it a bit to suit  
> your fancy. It also may take a little while to respond, since it  
> can't do the sort until it has all the results. But, it will result  
> in a list of all the files on your system that are larger than a  
> megabyte sorted by size. The largest ones will be at the end, where  
> you can see them without scrolling up.
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> If you want to tweak that, you can make the first 0-9 into 5-9 and  
> only get things that are 5M or larger. Or you can add another [0-9]  
> and get only things that are 10M or larger.
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> Use that for reference as you browse through a finder window and  
> decide what to toss.
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> Have fun.
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