find large files recursively

find the large files through a filesytem

cd [some directory]
du -ak | sort -nr | more

search for a specific string through recursively, returning context and server if the string is found…

for i in `du -ak | egrep -v \.svn | awk '{ print $2 }'`
do
  if [[ `grep -i sstone $i` ]]; then
    echo ""
    echo __________________________________________
    echo $i
    echo __________________________________________
    grep -i sstone $i
    echo ""
  fi
done

Best way to do it?
Maybe not. But both are useful. The first for finding large files, the second for tracing puppet variables down in puppet hierarchy.

find . -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

Finding files older than 7 days and remove. Cleaning log files…

—doug

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