How do I get the find command to print out the file size with the file name

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If I issue the find command as follows      find   -name   ear   It prints out     dir1 dir2 earFile1 ear   dir1 dir2 earFile2 ear   dir1 dir3 earFile1 ear   What I want to  print  to the command line is the name and the size     dir1 dir2 earFile1 ear  5000 KB   dir1 dir2 earFile2 ear  5400 KB   dir1 dir3 earFile1 ear  5400 KB

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Try the following commands   GNU stat   find   -type f -name   ear -exec stat -c   n  s           BSD stat   find   -type f -name   ear -exec stat -f   N  z           however stat isn t standard  so du or wc could be a better approach   find   -type f -name   ear -exec sh -c  echo       wc -c  lt

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find   -name    ear  -exec ls -lh         just the h extra from jer drab org s reply  saves time converting to MB mentally

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a simple solution is to use the -ls option in find   find   -name    ear -ls   That gives you each entry in the normal  ls -l  format  Or  to get the specific output you seem to be looking for  this   find   -name    ear -printf   p t k KB n    Which will give you the filename followed by the size in KB

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find   -name    ear    xargs ls -sh

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Awk can fix up the output to give just what the questioner asked for  On my Solaris 10 system  find -ls prints size in KB as the second field  so     find   -name    ear  -ls   awk   print  2   11   5400   dir1 dir2 earFile2 ear 5400   dir1 dir2 earFile3 ear 5400   dir1 dir2 earFile1 ear   Otherwise  use -exec ls -lh and pick out the size field from the output  Again on Solaris 10     find   -name    ear  -exec ls -lh         awk   print  5   9   5 3M   dir1 dir2 earFile2 ear 5 3M   dir1 dir2 earFile3 ear 5 3M   dir1 dir2 earFile1 ear

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You could try this   find  -name   ear -exec du         This will give you the size in bytes  But the du command also accepts the parameters -k for KB and -m for MB  It will give you an output like  5000    dir1 dir2 earFile1 ear 5400    dir1 dir2 earFile2 ear 5400    dir1 dir3 earFile1 ear

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find   -name    ear  -exec ls -l

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find   -name    ear  -exec ls -l

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Awk can fix up the output to give just what the questioner asked for  On my Solaris 10 system  find -ls prints size in KB as the second field  so     find   -name    ear  -ls   awk   print  2   11   5400   dir1 dir2 earFile2 ear 5400   dir1 dir2 earFile3 ear 5400   dir1 dir2 earFile1 ear   Otherwise  use -exec ls -lh and pick out the size field from the output  Again on Solaris 10     find   -name    ear  -exec ls -lh         awk   print  5   9   5 3M   dir1 dir2 earFile2 ear 5 3M   dir1 dir2 earFile3 ear 5 3M   dir1 dir2 earFile1 ear

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a simple solution is to use the -ls option in find   find   -name    ear -ls   That gives you each entry in the normal  ls -l  format  Or  to get the specific output you seem to be looking for  this   find   -name    ear -printf   p t k KB n    Which will give you the filename followed by the size in KB

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I struggled with this on Mac OS X where the find command doesn t support -printf   A solution that I found  that admittedly relies on the  group  for all files being  staff  was     ls -l -R   sed  s       staff     0-9                          2  3     This splits the ls long output into three tokens   the stuff before the text  staff  the file size the file name   And then outputs tokens 2 and 3  i e  output is number of bytes and then filename  8071 sections php 54681 services php 37961 style css 13260 thumb php 70951 workshops php

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You need to use -exec or -printf  Printf works like this   find   -name   ear -printf   p  k KB n    -exec is more powerful and lets you execute arbitrary commands - so you could use a version of  ls  or  wc  to print out the filename along with other information   man find  will show you the available arguments to printf  which can do a lot more than just filesize    edit  -printf is not in the official POSIX standard  so check if it is supported on your version  However  most modern systems will use GNU find or a similarly extended version  so there is a good chance it will be implemented

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find   -name    ear  -exec ls -lh         just the h extra from jer drab org s reply  saves time converting to MB mentally

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You could try this   find  -name   ear -exec du         This will give you the size in bytes  But the du command also accepts the parameters -k for KB and -m for MB  It will give you an output like  5000    dir1 dir2 earFile1 ear 5400    dir1 dir2 earFile2 ear 5400    dir1 dir3 earFile1 ear

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If you need to get total size  here is a script proposal     bin bash totalSize 0  allSizes  find   -type f -name   ear -exec stat -c   s          for fileSize in  allSizes  do     totalSize  echo      totalSize  fileSize     done echo  Total size is  totalSize bytes

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This should get you what you re looking for  formatting included  i e  file name first and size afterward    find   -type f -iname    ear  -exec du -ah         awk   print  2  t    1     sample output  where I used -iname    php  to get some result      plugins bat class bat inc php  20K   plugins quotas class quotas inc php    8 0K   plugins dmraid class dmraid inc php    8 0K   plugins updatenotifier class updatenotifier inc php    4 0K   index php      4 0K   config php     12K   includes mb class hwsensors inc php    8 0K

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find   -name    ear  -exec ls -l

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find   -name  test   -exec du -sh       4 0K      test1 0         test2 0         test3 0         test4     Scripter World reference

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You could try this   find  -name   ear -exec du         This will give you the size in bytes  But the du command also accepts the parameters -k for KB and -m for MB  It will give you an output like  5000    dir1 dir2 earFile1 ear 5400    dir1 dir2 earFile2 ear 5400    dir1 dir3 earFile1 ear

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find   -name    ear  -exec du -h         This gives you the filesize only  instead of all the unnecessary stuff

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Try the following commands   GNU stat   find   -type f -name   ear -exec stat -c   n  s           BSD stat   find   -type f -name   ear -exec stat -f   N  z           however stat isn t standard  so du or wc could be a better approach   find   -type f -name   ear -exec sh -c  echo       wc -c  lt

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Using gnu find  I think this is what you want   It finds all real files and not directories  -type f   and for each one prints the filename   p   a tab   t   the size in kilobytes   k   the suffix   KB   and then a newline   n    find   -type f -printf   p t k KB n    If the printf command doesn t format things the way you want  you can use exec  followed by the command you want to execute on each file   Use    for the filename  and terminate the command with a semicolon       On most shells  all three of those characters should be escaped with a backslash   Here s a simple solution that finds  and prints them out using  ls -lh   which will show you the size in human-readable form  k for kilobytes  M for megabytes    find   -type f -exec ls -lh           As yet another alternative   wc -c  will print the number of characters  bytes  in the file   find   -type f -exec wc -c

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Using gnu find  I think this is what you want   It finds all real files and not directories  -type f   and for each one prints the filename   p   a tab   t   the size in kilobytes   k   the suffix   KB   and then a newline   n    find   -type f -printf   p t k KB n    If the printf command doesn t format things the way you want  you can use exec  followed by the command you want to execute on each file   Use    for the filename  and terminate the command with a semicolon       On most shells  all three of those characters should be escaped with a backslash   Here s a simple solution that finds  and prints them out using  ls -lh   which will show you the size in human-readable form  k for kilobytes  M for megabytes    find   -type f -exec ls -lh           As yet another alternative   wc -c  will print the number of characters  bytes  in the file   find   -type f -exec wc -c

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Using gnu find  I think this is what you want   It finds all real files and not directories  -type f   and for each one prints the filename   p   a tab   t   the size in kilobytes   k   the suffix   KB   and then a newline   n    find   -type f -printf   p t k KB n    If the printf command doesn t format things the way you want  you can use exec  followed by the command you want to execute on each file   Use    for the filename  and terminate the command with a semicolon       On most shells  all three of those characters should be escaped with a backslash   Here s a simple solution that finds  and prints them out using  ls -lh   which will show you the size in human-readable form  k for kilobytes  M for megabytes    find   -type f -exec ls -lh           As yet another alternative   wc -c  will print the number of characters  bytes  in the file   find   -type f -exec wc -c

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You could try this   find  -name   ear -exec du         This will give you the size in bytes  But the du command also accepts the parameters -k for KB and -m for MB  It will give you an output like  5000    dir1 dir2 earFile1 ear 5400    dir1 dir2 earFile2 ear 5400    dir1 dir3 earFile1 ear

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This should get you what you re looking for  formatting included  i e  file name first and size afterward    find   -type f -iname    ear  -exec du -ah         awk   print  2  t    1     sample output  where I used -iname    php  to get some result      plugins bat class bat inc php  20K   plugins quotas class quotas inc php    8 0K   plugins dmraid class dmraid inc php    8 0K   plugins updatenotifier class updatenotifier inc php    4 0K   index php      4 0K   config php     12K   includes mb class hwsensors inc php    8 0K

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find   -name    ear  -exec ls -lh         just the h extra from jer drab org s reply  saves time converting to MB mentally

User · Answer

a simple solution is to use the -ls option in find   find   -name    ear -ls   That gives you each entry in the normal  ls -l  format  Or  to get the specific output you seem to be looking for  this   find   -name    ear -printf   p t k KB n    Which will give you the filename followed by the size in KB

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You need to use -exec or -printf  Printf works like this   find   -name   ear -printf   p  k KB n    -exec is more powerful and lets you execute arbitrary commands - so you could use a version of  ls  or  wc  to print out the filename along with other information   man find  will show you the available arguments to printf  which can do a lot more than just filesize    edit  -printf is not in the official POSIX standard  so check if it is supported on your version  However  most modern systems will use GNU find or a similarly extended version  so there is a good chance it will be implemented

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Why not use du -a   E g    find   -name    ear  -exec du -a         Works on a Mac

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I struggled with this on Mac OS X where the find command doesn t support -printf   A solution that I found  that admittedly relies on the  group  for all files being  staff  was     ls -l -R   sed  s       staff     0-9                          2  3     This splits the ls long output into three tokens   the stuff before the text  staff  the file size the file name   And then outputs tokens 2 and 3  i e  output is number of bytes and then filename  8071 sections php 54681 services php 37961 style css 13260 thumb php 70951 workshops php

User · Answer

Using gnu find  I think this is what you want   It finds all real files and not directories  -type f   and for each one prints the filename   p   a tab   t   the size in kilobytes   k   the suffix   KB   and then a newline   n    find   -type f -printf   p t k KB n    If the printf command doesn t format things the way you want  you can use exec  followed by the command you want to execute on each file   Use    for the filename  and terminate the command with a semicolon       On most shells  all three of those characters should be escaped with a backslash   Here s a simple solution that finds  and prints them out using  ls -lh   which will show you the size in human-readable form  k for kilobytes  M for megabytes    find   -type f -exec ls -lh           As yet another alternative   wc -c  will print the number of characters  bytes  in the file   find   -type f -exec wc -c

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a simple solution is to use the -ls option in find   find   -name    ear -ls   That gives you each entry in the normal  ls -l  format  Or  to get the specific output you seem to be looking for  this   find   -name    ear -printf   p t k KB n    Which will give you the filename followed by the size in KB

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If you need to get total size  here is a script proposal     bin bash totalSize 0  allSizes  find   -type f -name   ear -exec stat -c   s          for fileSize in  allSizes  do     totalSize  echo      totalSize  fileSize     done echo  Total size is  totalSize bytes

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find   -name    ear    xargs ls -sh

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You need to use -exec or -printf  Printf works like this   find   -name   ear -printf   p  k KB n    -exec is more powerful and lets you execute arbitrary commands - so you could use a version of  ls  or  wc  to print out the filename along with other information   man find  will show you the available arguments to printf  which can do a lot more than just filesize    edit  -printf is not in the official POSIX standard  so check if it is supported on your version  However  most modern systems will use GNU find or a similarly extended version  so there is a good chance it will be implemented

User · Answer

Awk can fix up the output to give just what the questioner asked for  On my Solaris 10 system  find -ls prints size in KB as the second field  so     find   -name    ear  -ls   awk   print  2   11   5400   dir1 dir2 earFile2 ear 5400   dir1 dir2 earFile3 ear 5400   dir1 dir2 earFile1 ear   Otherwise  use -exec ls -lh and pick out the size field from the output  Again on Solaris 10     find   -name    ear  -exec ls -lh         awk   print  5   9   5 3M   dir1 dir2 earFile2 ear 5 3M   dir1 dir2 earFile3 ear 5 3M   dir1 dir2 earFile1 ear

User · Answer

find   -name    ear    xargs ls -sh

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find   -name    ear    xargs ls -sh

User · Answer

Awk can fix up the output to give just what the questioner asked for  On my Solaris 10 system  find -ls prints size in KB as the second field  so     find   -name    ear  -ls   awk   print  2   11   5400   dir1 dir2 earFile2 ear 5400   dir1 dir2 earFile3 ear 5400   dir1 dir2 earFile1 ear   Otherwise  use -exec ls -lh and pick out the size field from the output  Again on Solaris 10     find   -name    ear  -exec ls -lh         awk   print  5   9   5 3M   dir1 dir2 earFile2 ear 5 3M   dir1 dir2 earFile3 ear 5 3M   dir1 dir2 earFile1 ear

User · Answer

find   -name    ear  -exec ls -lh         just the h extra from jer drab org s reply  saves time converting to MB mentally

User · Answer

find   -name    ear  -exec du -h         This gives you the filesize only  instead of all the unnecessary stuff

User · Answer

find   -name  test   -exec du -sh       4 0K      test1 0         test2 0         test3 0         test4     Scripter World reference

User · Answer

find   -name    ear  -exec ls -l

User · Answer

You need to use -exec or -printf  Printf works like this   find   -name   ear -printf   p  k KB n    -exec is more powerful and lets you execute arbitrary commands - so you could use a version of  ls  or  wc  to print out the filename along with other information   man find  will show you the available arguments to printf  which can do a lot more than just filesize    edit  -printf is not in the official POSIX standard  so check if it is supported on your version  However  most modern systems will use GNU find or a similarly extended version  so there is a good chance it will be implemented

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Why not use du -a   E g    find   -name    ear  -exec du -a         Works on a Mac

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