Linux find big files or Search for big and large files in linux

the following command will search for files larger than: 20MB

and will search the whole system

find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $NF ": " $5 }' 

the 20000k is the file size in kilobytes.
change that value to your own


to find users who have large files on their public_html:

find /home/*/public_html/ -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $NF ": " $5 }'

to search inside a folder:

find /path_to_folder/ -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $NF ": " $5 }'

replace path_to_folder with your real path.