Finding files larger than a size | LinuC Level 1 101 Exam original practice question

1.02.2Basic

Find regular files under /var/tmp larger than 100 MiB.

Which GNU find condition is appropriate?

Hint 1: Focus on the requirement

Identify what must change and what must remain unchanged. Then choose the command whose scope matches that requirement.

Hint 2: Check each command's role

Separate commands that display information, change state, remove data, or affect a child process.

find /var/tmp -type f -size +100M: Correct. -size +100M selects files larger than 100 MiB.
find /var/tmp -type f -size 100M: Incorrect. Without a sign, the size test is an exact unit count rather than greater-than.
find /var/tmp -type f -size -100M: Incorrect. -100M selects files smaller than the threshold.
find /var/tmp -type f -mtime +100: Incorrect. -mtime tests age in days, not file size.

Detailed explanation

Correctfind /var/tmp -type f -size +100M

Correct. -size +100M selects files larger than 100 MiB.

Incorrectfind /var/tmp -type f -size 100M

Incorrect. Without a sign, the size test is an exact unit count rather than greater-than.

Incorrectfind /var/tmp -type f -size -100M

Incorrect. -100M selects files smaller than the threshold.

Incorrectfind /var/tmp -type f -mtime +100

Incorrect. -mtime tests age in days, not file size.

An example you can run in a temporary verification environment.

tmp=$(mktemp -d); truncate -s 101M "$tmp/large"; truncate -s 50M "$tmp/small"; find "$tmp" -type f -size +100M -printf '%f\n'; rm -rf "$tmp"

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Foundation review

Check whether the command acts on the current shell, a new process, an existing process, or a file.

Use the supplied command and compare the output with the expected result.

Question IDKL-101-402

EnvironmentGNU findutils 4.x / sparse一時ファイル

Last technical review2026-08-13