Linux helpful space utililization commands

Command to find all log files that are older than two days

• find –name '*.log' –mtime +2 -exec ls –l {} \;

Command to find and delete all log files that are older than two days

• find -name '*.log' -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;

Command to find files with size more than 50 MB

• find . -type f -size +50000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

Command to display dir structure with size in GB

• du -h ./ | grep ^[0-9.]*G