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Find all files/directories named $something under current directory
find -name "$something"
Find all files/directories named '.todo' under $STORAGEFOLDER directory tree and print their parent paths
find "$STORAGEFOLDER" -name .todo -printf '%h\n'
Find all files/directories named 'Desktop' under current directory
find ./ -name Desktop
Find all files/directories named 'FindCommandExamples.txt' that belong to the user 'root' in the entire filesystem
find / -user root -name FindCommandExamples.txt
Find all files/directories named 'Waldo' under 'Books' directory tree that is located in user's home directory
find ~/Books -name Waldo
Find all files/directories named 'apt' in the entrie filesystem
find / -name "apt"
Find all files/directories named 'articles.jpg' under '/home/username/public_html/images' directory tree
find /home/username/public_html/images -name "articles.jpg"
Find all files/directories named 'articles.jpg' under 'images' directory tree
find images -name "articles.jpg"
Find all files/directories named 'articles.jpg' under current directory tree
find . -name "articles.jpg"
Find all files/directories named 'com.apple.syncedpreferences.plist' (case insensitive) under ~/Library directory tree
find ~/Library/ -iname "com.apple.syncedpreferences.plist"
Find all files/directories named 'date' under /usr
find /usr -name date
Find all files/directories named 'document' in the entire filesystem
find / -name document -print
Find all files/directories named 'document' in maximum 4 levels down the '/usr' directory
find /usr -maxdepth 4 -name document -print
Find all files/directories named 'document' in the root filesystem partition
find / -xdev -name document -print
Find all files/directories named 'file' and print them with null character as the delimiter instead of newline
find -name file -print0
Find all files/directories named 'file' without descending into directories with the same name under current directory tree
find -name file -prune
Find all files/directories named 'file_name' under current directory tree
find . -name file_name
Find all files/directories named 'filename' that belong to user 'username' and group 'groupname' in the entire filesystem
find / -user username -group groupname -name filename
Find all files/directories named 'findcommandexamples.txt' (case insensitive) in the entire filesystem
find / -iname findcommandexamples.txt
Find all files/directories named 'foo' in the entire filesystem
find / -name foo
Find all files/directories named 'foo' under current directory tree without descending into directories named 'foo'
find . -name foo -type d -prune -o -name foo
Find all files/directories named 'foo.bar' in the entire filesystem
find / -name foo.bar -print
Find all files/directories named 'foo.bar' under './dir1' and './dir2' directory trees
find ./dir1 ./dir2 -name foo.bar -print
Find all files/directories named 'foo.rb' under current directory tree
find . -name foo.rb
Find all files/directories named 'fprintf.c' under '/usr/src' directory tree
find /usr/src -name fprintf.c
Find all files/directories named 'game' under current directory tree
find . -name game
Find all files/directories named 'java' under /usr directory
find /usr -name java
Find all files/directories named 'javac' under current directory
find . -name 'javac'
Find all files/directories named 'my.txt' in the entire filesystem
find / -name "my.txt"
Find all files/directories named 'myfile' under your home directory
find ~ -name myfile
Find all files/directories named 'pattern' under current directory tree
find . -name "pattern" -print
Find all files/directories named 'photo?.jpg' under current directory tree
find . -name photo\?.jpg
Find all files/directories named 'query' (case insensitive) under current directory
find -iname "query"
Find all files/directories named 'query' under current directory
find -name "query"
Find all files/directories named 'query' (case insensitive) under current directory tree
find -iname "query"
Find all files/directories named 'query' under current directory tree
find -name "query"
Find all files/directories named 'test' under current directory tree
find . -name test
Find all files/directories named 'testfile.txt' under current directory tree
find . -name testfile.txt
Find all files/directories named 'text' under current directory
find -name "text"
Find all files/directories named 'top' (case insensitive) in the entire filesystem
find / -iname top
Find all files/directories named 'top' in the entire filesystem
find / -name top
Find all files/directories named 'vimrc' in the entire filesystem
find / -name vimrc
Find all files/directories named 'имя_файла' in the entire filesystem
find / -name "имя_файла"
Find all files/directories named file in 2 and 3 levels down the current directory
find -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 3 -name file
Find all files/directories named file in minimum 4 levels down the current directory
find -mindepth 4 -name file
Find all files/directories named modules under current directory
find . -name modules
Find all files/directories named orm.properties in entire file system
sudo find / -name "orm.properties"
Find all files/directories named orm.properties under /eserver6 directory
find /eserver6 -name "orm.properties"
Find all files/directories named orm.properties under /eserver6/share/system/config/cluster directory
find /eserver6/share/system/config/cluster -name "orm.properties"
Find all files/directories named orm.properties under current directory
find . -name "orm.properties"
Find all files/directories named Root under current directory and copy them to newRoot
find . -name Root | xargs cp newRoot
Find all files/directories newer than ttt or owned by user 'wn' in entire file system
find / \( -newer ttt -or -user wnj \) -print
Find all files/directories not with the name 'query_to_avoid' under current directory
find -not -name "query_to_avoid"
Find all files/directories not with the name 'query_to_avoid' under current directory
find \! -name "query_to_avoid"
Find all files and directories on the system whose name is `filedir'
find / -name filedir
Find all files/directories owned by the user 'bob' under '/home' directory tree
find /home -user bob
Find all files/directories owned by user 'joebob' under '/some/directory' directory tree
find /some/directory -user joebob -print
Find all files and directories starting from the current directory
find .
Find all files/directories starting with 'app-' and ending with '.log' in their names and have been modified in the last 5 minutes
find /var/log/crashes -name app-\*\.log -mmin -5
Find all files/directories starting with 'onlyme' in their names under current directory tree in minimum 1 level deep
find . -mindepth 1 -name 'onlyme*'
Find all files/directories startring with 'onlyme' in their names under current directory without going into sub-directories
find . -maxdepth 1 -name 'onlyme*'
Find all files/directories starting with 'readme' (case insensitive) under '/usr/share/doc' directory tree
find /usr/share/doc -name '[Rr][Ee][Aa][Dd][Mm][Ee]*'
Find all files/directories that are bigger than 100 bytes under '/home/apache' directory tree
find /home/apache -size 100c -print
Find all files/directories that are newer than 'backup.tar.gz' by modification time
find . -newer backup.tar.gz
Find all files/directories that are newer than 'ttt' by modification time or owned by the user 'wnj' in the entire filesystem
find / \( -newer ttt -or -user wnj \) -print
Find all files/directories that are owned by user 'dave' under current user's home directory tree
find ~ -user dave -print
Find all files/directories that are owned by user 'takuya' under current directory tree
find -user takuya
Find all files/directories that are owned by user 'wnj' and are newer than 'ttt' by modification time in the entire filesystem
find / -newer ttt -user wnj -print
Find all files and directories that have been modified in the last seven days.
find . -mtime -7
find all files and directories that have been modified in the last seven days
find . -mtime -7
Find all files/directories that belong to the group 'accts' under '/apps' directory tree
find /apps -group accts -print
Find all files/directories that belong to the group 'audio' under '/dev' directory tree
find /dev -group audio
Find all files/directories that belong to the group 'staff' under '/usr' directory tree
find /usr -group staff
Find all files/directories that contain 'packet' (case insensitive) in their names excluding directories that are bigger than 1500 bytes in size
find . -iregex ".*packet.*" ! -type d -size +1500c
Find all files/directories that contain 'target' (case insensitive) in their names under current directory no-recursively
find -maxdepth 1 -iname "*target*"
Find all files/directories that contain the string literal '$VERSION' in their names under current directory tree
find . -name '*$VERSION*'
Find all files/directories that do not belong to any user under '/home' directory tree
find /home -nouser -print
Find all files/directories that do not contain 'photo' in their names under current directory tree
find . ! -name "*photo*"
Find all files and directories that do not match the pattern given as the $controlchars variable
find . ! -name "$controlchars"
Find all files/directories that have read, write, execution permission for user and belong to the user 'my_user' under current directory tree
find . -user my_user -perm -u+rwx
Find all files/directories that start with 'a1a2' and end with 'txt' in their names and move their parent directories to '/home/spenx/dst/' directory
find /home/spenx/src -name "a1a2*txt" | xargs -n 1 dirname | xargs -I list mv list /home/spenx/dst/
Find all files/directories that start with 'onlyme' in their names under maximum 2 levels down the current directory
find . -maxdepth 2 -name 'onlyme*'
Find all files/directories that start with 'readme' (case insensitive) in their names under '/usr/share/doc' directory tree
find /usr/share/doc -name '[Rr][Ee][Aa][Dd][Mm][Ee]*'
Find all files/directories that start with 'test' in their names under current directory tree
find . -name 'test*'
Find all files/directories under $1 which have at least write permission for their owner and set write permission for group for these files/directories
find "$1" -perm -u+w -print0 | xargs chmod g+w
Find all files/directories under $1 which have at least write permission for their owner and set write permission for group for these files/directories
find $1 -perm -u+w -exec chmod g+w {} \;
Find all files/directories under $TARGET_DIR directory tree matching the posix extended regular expression \".*/$now.*\" (where $now is a variable) and save the output in file $FILE_LIST
find $TARGET_DIR -regextype posix-extended -regex \".*/$now.*\" -fprint $FILE_LIST
Find all files/directories under $dir directory
find "$dir"
Find all files/directories under $dir directory tree which have been modified in the last 3 days
find $dir -mtime -3
Find all files/directories under '/abs/path/to/directory' directory non-recursively that match the pattern '.*invalidTemplateName.*' in their names
find /abs/path/to/directory -maxdepth 1 -name '.*invalidTemplateName.*'
Find all files/directories under '/directory_path' directory tree that have been modified within the last day
find /directory_path -mtime -1 -print
Find all files/directories under '/home/exampleuser/' directory tree whose names end with 'conf' and were modified exactly 3 days ago
find /home/exampleuser/ -name "*conf" -mtime 3
Find all files/directories under '/home/user/' directory tree whose status was changed exactly 10 minitues ago
find /home/user/ -cmin 10 -print
Find all files/directories under '/home/user/' directory tree whose status were changed 10 minutes ago
find /home/user/ -cmin 10 -print
Find all files/directories under '/usr' directory tree that have not been modified in the last 356 days counting days from today
find /usr -mtime +356 -daystart
Find all files/directories under '/usr/local' containing 'blast' (case insensitive) in their names
find /usr/local -iname "*blast*"
Find all files/directories under '/usr/local/games' directory tree that contain the string 'xpilot' in their names
find /usr/local/games -name "*xpilot*"
Find all files/directories under '/usr/share/data' directory tree that match the posix extended regex ".*/20140624.*" in their paths and save the list to '/home/user/txt-files/data-as-of-20140624.txt'
find /usr/share/data -regextype posix-extended -regex ".*/20140624.*" -fprint /home/user/txt-files/data-as-of-20140624.txt
Find all files/directories under '/usr/share/doc' directory tree that contain 'readme' (case insensitive) at the beginning of their names
find /usr/share/doc -iname readme\*
Find all the files/directories under '/var/adm' directory tree that have not been modified in the last 3 days
find /var/adm -mtime +3 -print