how to use du to see files greater than a threshold size

Question

I am having a few situations to which I do not see any thing in du man pages.

1) I want to see files in a sub directory which are larger than a particular size only. 2) I use du -sh > du_output.txt I see the output as described for option -s and -h how ever what I am more interested is if the output comes in a format which is say for example

 dir0--->dir1-->dir3-->dir4 
       |             | 
       ->dir2        |-file1
                     |-file2

if the above is directory layout and I want to just see the size of individual directories in all the subdirectories then what can I do (the depth of each subdirectory is variable)

Answer 1

I like the gt5 utility. It use the output of du and creates a browsable listing of directories and their sizes and uses a text-mode browser such as links to display the information.

Both programs are available in the Ubuntu repositories: gt5 and links.

Answer 2

Use the find command instead. The following example will show you all files that are larger than 10 megabytes:

find -size +10M

You can use du with find like this to see the size of each file:

find -size +10M -exec du -sh {} \;

Answer 3

find /path/to/folder -size +100k

It's not clear if you are wanting to see the size of individual files which are larger than some value, or whether you want to see folders larger than some value.