So, you are out of space on your linux box. You know you have a bunch of stuff floating around on there. You just need an easy way to query it and locate the junk. So, here it is. I will give you the command and then break-down exactly what it does.

$find /.m2/ -type f -size +10000k -exec ls -lh {} \; 2> /dev/null | awk '{ print $NF ": " $5 }' | sort -nrk 2,2

Now lets look at what it does:

find /.m2/ -type f -size +10000k

Here we’re searching the home directory of the user you’re currently logged in as for files greater than 10MB.

-exec ls -lh {} \; 2> /dev/null

 

This redirects all permission errors (since we are not root) when doing the locate.

awk '{ print $NF ": " $5 }'

 

This will display the path and size of the files in a human readable way.

sort -nrk 2,2

This sorts from large to small.

And that is it. Pretty straight forward. But, god is it a time saver.