[SOLVED] How to recursively find the largest non-compressed files in a directory

Issue

I want to make a text file that lists the largest files w/ size > 100M without ".gz" extension,

I am trying this:

find . -type f -size +100M ! -name "*.gz" | find -printf '%s %p\n'|sort -nr|head

Which still seems to list files with gzip. I am starting to think the issue is after the pipe, because without the pipe the first half seems to work correctly but does not pretty print file sizes and sort, which is helpful to me . Any advice is appreciated.

Solution

You don't need two find

just:

find . -type f -size +100M ! -name "*.gz" -printf '%s %p\n'|sort -nr|head

Answered By - Ôrel

Answer Checked By - David Marino (WPSolving Volunteer)