I'm wanting to find multiple files as in
find /etc/ /usr/ -type f,d -size +1k -exec ls -slah {} /; -exec rm -riv {} +
My question to you is how can I delete only the file size 5k and below with the -exec option
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1Words? Files? Which is it? – muru May 18 '17 at 01:49
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Also note that manually deleting files from system directories in this way has *Bad Idea* written all over it – steeldriver May 18 '17 at 02:44
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Why, please elaborate ! – May 19 '17 at 02:49
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If I understand your question correctly, you want to:
- Look for files under
/etcand/usr - Select only those files which are under 5k in size
- Delete them
In that case, what you want is this:
find /etc /usr -type f -size -5k -delete
Notice that there is no need for -exec, since you can simply use the -delete option.
In your question you wrote -size +1k. Did you mean to ask about finding files which are between 1k and 5k in size? If that was the case, then you can simply specify the -size option twice:
find /etc /usr -type f -size +1k -size -5k -delete
