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July 3, 2010April 13, 2016 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 1 Comment

Finding large files in a Linux system

To list large files in a directory and subdirectories

find /home/user -type f -size +10000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $NF ": " $5 }'

1	find /home/user -type f -size +10000k -exec ls -lh {} \; \| awk '{ print $NF ": " $5 }'

This command looks for files larger than 10MB in /home/user directory and displays the result as follows: /home/user/largefile1.tar.bz2: 32M /home/user/bugzilla.sql: 21M Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011. www.cnx-software.com

June 26, 2010March 2, 2017 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

EP9307 Thin Client with DirectVNC

One of my reader had issues running Thin-clients ENTC Encore-1000 based on EP9307 and wanted to update the firmware in his systems. So I’ll explain how to access Linux, Windows XP or any other operating systems using a thin client based on Cirrus Logic EP9307 hardware. This is for reference only, and the performance may not be suitable for your environment/setup. One PC (server) is needed to run VNC (Virtual Network Computing) server for each remote desktop (i.e. each thin client), then the thin client can run the software without hard disk by just using the network connection. This can be used for checking emails, browsing internet, office applications, etc.. All resource heavy tasks are done on the server side whose specifications may be chosen to match the applications requirements. I’ll explain how to use Linux, but Windows XP (or any other operating systems for that matter) could also be […]