Automatically Finding files of specific size of type or modified date and adding to tar

Refer following command for your specific need:

#All files of size greater thab 1Gb

find / -type f -size +1048576 | xargs tar -czf myfile.tgz

#All files modified one day before

find / -type f -mtime -1 | xargs tar -czf myfile.tgz

#All files modified one day before and size more than 1Gb

find / -type f -mtime -1 -size +1048576 | xargs tar -czf myfile.tgz

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#All files of size greater thab 1Gb

find / -type f -size +1048576 -exec tar -cvvfp /some/path/some.tar {} \;

#All files modified one day before

find / -type f -mtime -1 -exec tar -cvvfp /some/path/some.tar {} \;

#All files modified one day before and size more than 1Gb

find / -type f -mtime -1 -size +1048576 -exec tar -cvfp /some/path/some.tar {} \;



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#Find and move file to yourspecified location

find / -type f -mtime -1 -size +1048576 -exec mv /yourlocations {} \;


Note : If you want to search these file in specific directory the specify that directory path after find instead of "/" of give "." for current location.

+ afer mtime means search files older than the specified time
- afer mtime means search files newer than the specified time and older current time

You can try many other option and explore imagination