How to count number of files in a directory that are over a certain file size

Question

Is there a way to count how many files in a specific directory are over some file size? Say, 100 MB?

Combined with https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4105/how-do-i-count-all-the-files-recursively-through-directories — muru, Jul 13 '19 at 03:00
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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '19 at 01:09

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Perhaps

find path/to/directory/ -type f -size +100M -printf 1 | wc -c

Or, if you want to limit the search to the top level directory only (without descending into subdirectories)

find path/to/directory/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -size +100M -printf 1 | wc -c

answered Jul 13 '19 at 01:09

steeldriver

`$ find /tmp/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -print | wc -l` – mirekphd May 18 '22 at 08:59
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@mirekphd `find ... -printf 1 | wc -c` is preferred over `find ... -print | wc -l` because the latter will miscount files whose names contain newlines – steeldriver May 18 '22 at 11:45

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