nemo 5.6.4 Cinnamon 21.1 cant sort files and folders by size

[deepakdeshp]

Hello,
I wanted to sort files and folders by size in Nemo. The size column is missing in Nemo, I also wanted to find say files greater than 50MB in nemo, If it cant be done in Nemo, which other application can do it?

[Termy]

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This is an easy job for the terminal and find(1):

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find -type f -size +50M

That'll show files of a size greater than 50M in the current working directory, recursively. To recurse, in this context, means that it would traverse the subdirectories until it can't go any further. If you don't want find(1) to operate recursively, you can use:

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find -maxdepth 1 -type f -size +50M

If you want to search in a different directory than that which you're currently in, you can specify the directory path(s) like:

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find '/etc' -type f -size +50M

If you'd prefer human-readable file sizes:

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find -type f -size +50M -printf '%s %p\n' | numfmt --to=iec --field 1

You can also columnize the results to make it a bit nicer:

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find -type f -size +50M -printf '%s %p\n' | numfmt --to=iec --field 1 | column

If you see nothing listed, nothing was found.

If you're not familiar with the terminal, cd PATH lets you change to a directory, which is like double-clicking on a folder in a graphical file manager like Nemo. To see what's in the PATH, you can use ls from within it. You can also use ls PATH to list the contents of another PATH without first cd-ing into it. Of course, where 'PATH', provide a suitable path, not literally the word 'PATH'. The terminal is case-sensitive and spaces matter, liKeinwrIttEnlanGuages.

I'm not sure of a GUI solution, though.

[deepakdeshp]

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Thank you. I am aware of the find command and had used it too.I was looking for a gui solution.Nemo can't even sort files by size. Surprising.

[t42]

Nemo can't even sort files by size. Surprising.

The size column is missing in Nemo

In case if someone will read this post and started to think it's true - it's not true.

To add to Termy's comment, to sort directories by size in terminal it may be

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du <directory> -ah --max-depth=1 | sort -hr

Feature to sort directories by size in Nemo was requested several times and it seems to be rejected at the moment, but you can get a directory size by pressing space-bar on a selected folder.
https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issue ... -569356160

[DanR]

By far the #1 best most handy tool for this purpose and many many others for Linux is Double Commander file manager (in Windows its analog is Total Commander ). I have 7-8 of them running at the same time, each for separate purpose or for different project. Plus 2-3 Total Commanders when work with Windows via Wine. Each of them i made with different panel colors for simplicity of navigation.

Total Commander for Windows has one huge advantage over all other file managers: it has indexed search called "Everything" which allows you to have the same search like on Google -- instantly find not only some specific files but also anything inside the files. Unfortunately file managers for Linux lag in this respect.

No file managers sort directories by size, only files (looks like developers not yet have latest NVMe drives . But again like in Nemo, you can hit the space bar and get the info about size

[AndyMH]

The size column is missing in Nemo,

In nemo, edit > preference > list columns

Make sure size is enabled.

[deepakdeshp]

In nemo, edit > preference > list columns
Screenshot from 2023-06-12 14-06-32.png
Make sure size is enabled.

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