find directories having size greater than x MB

Question

Is it possible to find the directories only having size large than x MB. Suppose, I want to find all the directories only whose size is large than 1000MB with only 1 maxdept

Answer 1

If I'm interpreting your question right, I think this might be what you want:

cd /home
du -sm * | awk '$1 > 1000'

This will show all directories in /home that contain more than 1000MB. If your version of du doesn't support -m, you can use du -sk and adjust the awk bit to look for more than 1,000,000KB instead...