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This is useful if your drive is filling up with large log files

run in bash:

find {/path/to/directory} -type f -size +{file-size-in-kb}k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }' 

 sudo find /var -type f -size +5000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'

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