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Copy Large Files Over the Network with Netcat + tar + Qpress compression

Code Monk — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:38:13 +0000

On the target host, change directory to the folder you want to copy the files to:

nc -l 9999 | qpress -vdio | tar xvf -

On the source host, change directory to the folder containing the files to be copied:

tar -cf - . | qpress -vio - . | nc [TARGET_HOST_IP] 9999

Find Large Files using `find` Command

Code Monk — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:47:15 +0000

Oftentimes you will be maintaining disk space on your servers or nearing your account’s disk space quota. Quickly you want to know which files are taking up your disk space, here’s a quick rundown to find files greater than 10MB.

find . -type f -size +10240k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

This will find files from your current working directory and list them alongside their corresponding sizes.