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Find all files/directories with '.log' extension that belong to the group 'adm' under '/var/log' directory tree
find /var/log -group adm -name "*.log"
Find all files/directories with '.log' extension whose names start with 'app-', have been modified in the last 5 minutes and show the first one found
find /var/log/crashes -name app-\*\.log -mmin -5 -print | head -n 1
Find all files/directories with '.mp4' extension and all regular files with '.flv' extension, sort them according to their names and display the first 500 of them
find /storage -name "*.mp4" -o -name "*.flv" -type f | sort | head -n500
Find all files/directories with '.o' extension under '/lib/modules' directory tree
find /lib/modules -name '*.o'
Find all files/directories with '.tar.gz' extension under $DIR/tmp/daily/ directory tree, sort them numerically and show the last 3 of them
find $DIR/tmp/daily/ -name '*.tar.gz' | sort -n | tail -3
Find all files/directories with '.txt' extension that are less than 100 KB in size under '/home' directory tree
find /home -name "*.txt" -size -100k
Find all files/directories with '.txt' extension under '/home' directory tree that are exactly 100KB in size
find /home -name "*.txt" -size 100k
Find all files/directories with '.txt' extension under '/home' directory tree that are greater than 100KB in size
find /home -name "*.txt" -size +100k
Find all files/directories with '.what_to_find' extension under current directory tree and show the list by excluding paths that contain 'excludeddir1' and 'excludeddir2'
find . -name '*.what_to_find' | grep -v exludeddir1 | grep -v excludeddir2
Find all files/directories with '.xml' extension that start with 'log4j' in their names under '/cygdrive/e/MyDocs/Downloads/work/OATS Domain related/' directory tree, search for files that contain the string 'CONSOLE' in their contents, then search for the string 'ASYNC' in the matched files and display the matched lines along with their filenames
find "/cygdrive/e/MyDocs/Downloads/work/OATS Domain related/" -iname "log4j*.xml" | xargs -I % grep -ilr "CONSOLE" "%" | xargs -I % grep -H "ASYNC" %
Find all files/directories with 'my key phrase' in their names under current directory
find . -name '*my key phrase*'
Find all files/directories with 644 permission in entire file system
find / -perm 644
Find all files/directories with 664 permission under current directory tree
find -perm 664
Find all files/directories with 755 permission under current directory tree
find ./ -perm 755
Find all files/directories with 777 permission under current directory tree
find . -perm 777 -print
Find all files/directories with case insensitive name pattern $TARGET that are located in minimum 10 level down the current directory
find -mindepth 10 -iname $TARGET
Find all files/directories with execute permission by group or others
find /path -perm /011
Find all files/directories with inode number 16187430 and move them to 'new-test-file-name'
find -inum 16187430 -exec mv {} new-test-file-name \
Find all files/directories with name pattern $nombre that are at most 2 levels down the $DIR_TEMPORAL and $DIR_DESCARGA directories and show only the file names (without parent path) appended with '.torrent'
find "$DIR_TEMPORAL" "$DIR_DESCARGA" -maxdepth 2 -name "$nombre" -printf '%f.torrent\n'
Find all files/directories with permission $permissions under $directory directory tree
find "$directory" -perm "$permissions"
Find all files and directories with permissions 664
find . -perm 664
Find all files/directories with space in their names under $1 directory
find $1 -name '* *'
Find all files/directories with space in their names under /tmp/ directory and rename them by replacing all spaces with _
find /tmp/ -depth -name "* *" -execdir rename " " "_" "{}" ";"
Find all files/directories with space in their names under /tmp/ directory and rename them by replacing all spaces with _
find /tmp/ -depth -name "* *" -execdir rename 's/ /_/g' "{}" \;
Find all files/directories with spaces in their names under ~/Library directory
find ~/Library -name '* *'
find all files beneath the current directory that begin with the letters 'Foo' and delete them.
find . -type f -name "Foo*" -exec rm {} \;
Find all files beneath the current directory that end with the extension .java and contain the characters String ignoring case. Print the name of the file where a match is found.
find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -il string {} \;
Find all files beneath the current directory that end with the extension .java and contain the characters StringBuffer. Print the name of the file where a match is found.
find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -l StringBuffer {} \;
Find all the files called FindCommandExamples.txt of owner root
find / -user root -name FindCommandExamples.txt
Find all files called wp-config.php in the /var/www directory and below
find /var/www/ -name wp-config.php
Find all files changed on the 29th of September, 2008, starting from the current directory
find . -type f -newerct 2008-09-29 ! -newerct 2008-09-30
find all files the current folder which have not been accessed in the last 7 days and which are bigger than 20KB
find . -atime +7 -size +20480 -print
find all the files ending with ".coffee" in the current folder and search for the words "re" in each line
find . -name \*.coffee -exec grep -m1 -i 're' {} \;
find all the files ending with ".foo" in the folder /usr
find /usr -name '*.foo' -print
find all the files ending with "clj" in the current folder and search for a pattern
find . -name '*.clj' -exec grep -r resources {} \;
find all the files ending with "clj" in the current folder and search for a pattern
find . -name *.clj | xargs grep -r resources
find all the files ending with "mkv" in current folder
find -name "*.mkv"
find all the files ending with "rb" and display the first 10000 lines from these files.
find . -name "*rb" -print0 | xargs -0 head -10000
find all the files ending with "~" in current folder and move them to temp folder
find -name '*~' -print0 | xargs -0 -I _ mv _ /tmp/
find all the files ending with .mp3 or .jpg
find . \( -name '*.mp3' -o -name '*.jpg' \) -print
find all the files ending with jpg in current folder and display their count ( case insensitive )
find ./ -iname '*.jpg' -type f | wc -l
find all the files ending with jpg in current folder and display their count ( case insensitive )
find ./ -type f -regex ".*\.[Jj][Pp][gG]$" | wc -l
Find all files except files with '.gz' extension in the current directory non-recursively and compress them with gzip
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name '*.gz' -exec gzip "{}" \;
Find all files excluding *.gz files in the current directory tree and compress them with gzip
find . -type f ! -name '*.gz' -exec gzip "{}" \;
Find all files files under the current directory except *.txt
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -not -regex '.*\.txt'
Find all files, folders, symlinks, etc in the current directory recursively
find .
find all files having certain word in its name in the current folder
find . -name "*bsd*" -print
Findx all files having text "texthere" recursively in a current folder, and prints only file names with matching strings.
find -type f -exec grep -l "texthere" {} +
Find all files in "/home/" which contain "string1", "string2" or the host name in its filename
find /home/ -type f -regextype posix-extended -regex ".*(string1|string2|$(hostname)).*"
Finds all files in $LOCATION, prints file names, overwrite files with random content $TIMES times, and finally remove them.
find $LOCATION -print -exec shred $TIMES -u '{}' \;
Find all files in $dir directory (non-recursive) and count them
find "$dir" -maxdepth 1 -type f | wc -l
Find all files in $dir directory without going into sub-directories
find "$dir" -maxdepth 1 -type f
Find all files in the `sourceDir' directory
find sourceDir -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1
Find all files in the `sourceDir' directory tree
find sourceDir -mindepth 1
Find all files in the `work' directory tree, pass them to grep and search for "profit"
find ./work -print | xargs grep "profit"
Find all files in /dir1 and print only the filenames (not paths)
find ./dir1 -type f -exec basename {} \;
Find all files in /dir1 and print only the filenames (not paths)
find /dir1 -type f -printf "%f\n"
Find all files in the /etc folder that have been modified within the last 30 days and copy them to /a/path/.
find /etc/ -mtime -30 | xargs -0 cp /a/path
Find all files in the /home/ directory tree that are owned by bob
find /home -user bob
Find all files in the /home/ directory tree that were last accessed more than 7 days ago
find /home -atime +7
Find all files in the /home/ directory tree that were last modified less than 7 days ago
find /home -mtime -7
Find all files in /home/user/ that were created or changed 10 minutes ago
find /home/user/ -cmin 10 -print
Find all files in the /myfiles directory tree following symbolic links
find -L /myfiles
Find all files in the /usr directory tree that are owned by group `staff'
find /usr -group staff
find all the files in the /usr folder which have modification date less than or equal to the file "/FirstFile"
find /usr ! -newer /FirstFile -print
find all files in /usr/bin and run the "file" command on them.
find /usr/bin | xargs file
Find all files in the /var/tmp directory tree with uid=1000
find /var/tmp -uid 1000
Find all files in /var/www/html/zip/data/*/*/*/*/* that are older than 90 days
find /var/www/html/zip/data/*/*/*/*/* -type f -mtime +90
Find all files in /var/www/html/zip/data/*/*/*/*/* that are older than 90 days and print only unique parent directory paths
find /var/www/html/zip/data/*/*/*/*/* -type f -mtime +90 -printf "%h\n" | sort | uniq
Finds all files in a '/path' folder and prints long listing for them.
find /path -type f -exec ls -l \{\} \;
find all files in the a direcotry which have been modified in exactly 1 day back
find /home/bozo/projects -mtime 1
find all files in and under the current directory that have read, write and execute permissions set for all users.
find . -perm 777 -print
Find all the files in the current directory
find * -type f -print -o -type d -prune
Find all files in the current directory and below with extension .php and replace "php" with "html" in their names
find ./ -type f -name "*.php" | xargs -r rename "s/php/html/"
find all the files in the current directory and change the permissions to 775.
find . -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find all the files in the current directory and display them
find . -exec echo {} ;
Find all files in the current directory and its sub-directories that have been modified sometime in the last 24 hours.
find . -mtime -1 -prin
find all the files in the current directory and print them excluding those that have the name SCCS.
find . -print -o -name SCCS -prune
Find all files in current directory and search for 'searchName' in those files
find ./ -name "*" | xargs grep "searchName"
Find all files in current directory and search for 'searchName' in those files and show errors for files that are not directly on the current directory
find ./ -name "*" -printf "%f\n" | xargs grep "searchName"
find all files in the current directory and sub-directories that were accessed after modifying /etc/hosts
find -anewer /etc/hosts
find all the files in the current directory and sub-directories, that were edited within the last 1 hour and execute the list command with long listing format
find -mmin -60 -exec ls -l {} \;
find all the files in the current directory and sub-directories whose status was changed after /etc/fstab was modified
find -cnewer /etc/fstab
find all the files in the current directory ending with ".i"
find . -name ".*\.i"
Find all files in current directory excluding hidden files and put the output into full_backup_dir variable
full_backup_dir=$(find . -depth '(' -wholename './.*' ')' -prune -o -print)
find all files in the current directory excluding those that end with .js or have the words .min or console in their name
find . -type f \( -name "*.js" ! -name "*-min*" ! -name "*console*" \)
find all files in the current directory do not display the files which do not have read permission to all users
find . ! -perm -g+r,u+r,o+r -prune
find all the files in current directory of size exactly 6MB.
find . -size 6M
find all the files in current directory of size greater than 10MB and less than 20 MB.
find . -size +10M -size -20M
find all the files in current directory of size greater than 2GB.
find . -size +2G
Find all the files in the current directory recursively whose permissions are 644 and show the first 10 of them
find . -perm 0644 | head
Find all the files in the current directory recursively whose permissions are 777
find . -type f -perm 0777 -print
Find all the files in the current directory recursively whose permissions are not 777
find . -type f ! -perm 777 | head
Find all files in the current directory recursively with "linkin park" in their names and copy them to /Users/tommye/Desktop/LP, preserving path hierarchy
find . -type f -iname "*linkin park*" | cpio -pvdmu /Users/tommye/Desktop/LP
find all the files in the current directory that have the extension "bar" and donot search in the subdirecotries directories.
find . -name *.bar -maxdepth 2 -print
Find all files in current directory that were modified less than 1 day ago excluding hidden files and put the output to full_backup_dir variable
full_backup_dir=$(find . -depth \( -wholename \./\.\* \) -prune -o -mtime -1 -print)
find all the files in the current directory that have the word "bash" in their name
find . -name "*bash*"
Find all files in the current directory tree and count them
find | wc -l
Find all files in the current directory tree containing "foo" in their names
find . -print | grep -i foo
Find all files in the current directory tree except .html, ignoring .svn directories
find . \( -type d -name '.svn' -o -type f -name '*.html' \) -prune -o -print0