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How can I find files that are bigger/smaller than x bytes?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 2026366271 views
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Problem

In a terminal, how can I find files that are bigger or smaller than x bytes? I suppose I can do something like and then pipe the result to to filter by file size. But shouldn't there be an easier way than this?

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find . -exec ls -l {} \;

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Use: to find files bigger than 4096 bytes. And : to find files smaller than 4096 bytes. Notice the + and - difference after the size switch. The switch explained:

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