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How can I use find to select users with a certain amount of disk space usage?

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Mar 15, 2026482 views
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I want to find all users shown in the directory whose disk consumption is more than 500MB. The following command works as expected. From the above example, only should be returned. How can I make the command output the same results?

Error Output

cd /home/ && du */ -hs
68K     ajay/
902M    john/
250M    websites/

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Fix for: How can I use find to select users with a certain amount of disk space usage?

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Not sure why you want something like , so here's a scriptlet that does what you ask in (but doesn't work like find): Example: (with a smaller size): The just removes the trailing slash for extra prettyness.

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