How to find all .zip files and file size in linux

Question

I have 2TB of data. I want to list entire .zip and .rar files and files size in the directory and I want to exclude 01_Personal Folder directory.

I tried below command but it didn't work out.

find /home -type f ( -name ".zip" -o -name ".rar" ) ! -path "01_Personal Folder*" -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 du -b | sort -n -r > winrar.txt

Any other way to find files and file sizes.

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

With a slight modification to @prayas-pagade 's answer, I was able to achieve it using the following command:

du -ah | grep -e "\.zip$" -e "\.rar$"

Answer 2

Recall that find has a predicate printf to create formatted output, including size. So you can combine the filtering and formatting together:

find /home -type f '(' -name "*.zip" -o -name "*.rar" ')' '!' -path "01_Personal Folder*" -printf '%P %k\n'

Note: remember to quote all tokens which might have special meaning. This includes the file patterns (*.zip, ...), parentheses, exclamation point which might mean somthing to the shell.

Filtering on the name/folder with find eliminate searching and size calculation on unrelated files.

Answer 3

You can use the below command: du -ah | grep -e ".zip" -e ".rar"

Explanation: du shows the disk usage, -h is for human-readable size. And grep will find the match for .zip and as for multiple words we'll use -e.

Answer 4

Please try below command.

ll `find -iname *.bz2`

Answer 5

You should use find

find -iname *.zip

Example: to search for all .zip files in current directory and all sub-directories try this:

find . -iname *.zip

This will list all files ending with .zip regarding of case. If you only want the ones with lower-case change -iname to -name

The command grep searches for stings in files, not for files. You can use it with find to list all your .zip files like this

find . |grep -e ".zip$"

After you get the list of .zip files you can easily find the size of them.