Is there a shell tool to find folders greater than a given size?
Is there a shell tool to find folders greater than a given size?
- Subject: Is there a shell tool to find folders greater than a given size?
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:16:51 -0500
- Thread-topic: Is there a shell tool to find folders greater than a given size?
Come forth, all ye Shellites, and tell your tales.
I have been working on this (AS) script that reports in HTML about folders
whose size is greater than some given size [*], in an hierarchical report.
I don't speak Shelliac [!], so it only just occurred to me that there might
be a command provided to do just that, but I have no idea how to know even
know that. [+]
Is there something shelly that reports back a list, with paths, of all
folders exceeding some size limit, given some start folder?
(I don't trust Spotlight one hoot, as it can't find items I can see with my
own eyes. Besides, I want a live find.)
Thanks.
--
Gary
[*]
The Finder does a fast and fine job of getting a list of big folders with
the command:
every folder of _someFolder whose physical size is greater than _someSize
The real work is just managing the list of hierarchical results, since I
only want to keep drilling down folders that exceed the limit, until there
are not any more folders that do...then I've found the folder(s)
contributing the weight.
[!]
Weren't they a species on Next Gen? I can't remember them very well. Blob
creatures? Telepathic or something? Talking to Troy in her mind? Or were
they the ultra-litigious species that Picard one-upped in that treaty trial?
[+]
Like knowing the definition of some concept, but having no idea if there's a
word, what the word is, or how it could possibly be spelled.
A very interesting human problem.
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