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Linux: How to find files belonging to a user and show their size
Problem:
A user has exceeded his/her quota, but finding the oversized file(s) can be tricky.
 
Solution:
Employ the magic of "backticks" for this one.

First of all, the command for finding all files that belong to a certain user is:
"find ./ -user mette -print"

For each of these files, we want to show the size, the command for that is:
"du -h"

To run that command for each file, use backticks like this:
"du -h `find ./ -user mette -print`"

Note the special backticks, normal single quotes (') or apostrophes (´) will NOT work.
 
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