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Linux find total usage of files older than specified number of days

Sometimes I need to calculate a total disk usage of files older than a specified interval (days, months, years).


Here is a 1 liner to do that:

find . -type f -mtime +7 -print0 | du -hc --files0-from - | tail -n 1


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