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Find files in the /var/log folder which were modified modified 2 weeks ago
find /var/log/ -mtime +7 -mtime -8
Find files in /var/tmp/stuff and below that have not been modified in over 90 days
find /var/tmp/stuff -mtime +90 -print
Find files in two different directories (esofthub and esoft) having the "test" string and list them
find esofthub esoft -name "*test*" -type f -ls
Find files in and below the current directory whose names begin with "not" and remove one of them
find . -name not\* | tail -1 | xargs rm
Find files in the current directory and below that are 2000 kB in size
find . -size 2000k -print
Find files in the current directory and below that are less than 500 kB in size
find . -size -500k -print
FInd files in current directory and grep text and html files - but not index.html and report things that contain the word 'elevator' in four or more lines
find . -type f -print0 | egrep -iazZ '(\.txt|\.html?)$' | grep -vazZ 'index.html' | xargs -n 1 -0 grep -c -Hi elevator | egrep -v ':[0123]$'
Find files in the current directory and its sub-directories that begin with 'f'.
find . -name f* -print
find files in the current directory and sub-directories, that changed within last hour
find . -cmin -60
find files in the current directory and sub-directories, whose content was updated within the last hour
find . -mmin -60
Find files in the current directory excluding CVS, SVN, GIT repository files and all binary files.
find . -not \( -name .svn -prune -o -name .git -prune -o -name CVS -prune \) -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file -n | grep -v binary | cut -d ":" -f1
find files in the current directory having name "filename"
find -iname "filename"
Find the files in the current directory that match pattern '*.ISOLATE.*.txt' and move them to folder ./ISOLATE
find . -name '*.ISOLATE.*.txt' -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -IFILE mv FILE ./ISOLATE
Find the files in the current directory that match pattern '*.ISOLATE.quantifier.txt' and move them to folder ISOLATE/
find -name '*.ISOLATE.quantifier.txt' -maxdepth 1 -exec mv {} ISOLATE/ +
Find the files in the current directory that match pattern '*.JUKEBOX.*.txt' and move them to folder ./JUKEBOX
find . -name '*.JUKEBOX.*.txt' -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -IFILE mv FILE ./JUKEBOX
find files in current directory that names are game
find . -name game
Find files in the current directory tree of size between 700k and 1000k
find . \( -size +700k -and -size -1000k \)
Find files in the current directory tree that match pattern "*sub*"
find ./ -name "*sub*"
Find files in the current directory tree that were accessed within the last 60 minutes
find . -amin -60
Find files in the current directory tree which are larger than 5 MB in size
find . -size +5000k -type f
Find files in the current directory tree which have permissions rwx for user and rw for group and others
find . -perm 766
Find files in the current directory tree whose content was changed within the last 60 minutes
find . -mmin -60
Find files in the current directory tree whose names are of the form "cxx_data.txt" where xx is a number from 30 to 70
find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex '.\*c([3-6][0-9]|70).\*'
Find files in the current directory tree whose names are of the form "cxx_data.txt" where xx is a number from 40 to 70
find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex "./c(([4-6][0-9])|70)_data.txt"
Find files in the current directory tree whose names match regular expression "^.*~$\|^.*#$"
find -regex "^.*~$\|^.*#$"
Find files in the current directory tree whose pathnames contain "sub"
find ./ | grep "sub"
Find files in the current directory tree whose size is 24000 bytes
find . -size 24000c
Find files in the current directory tree whose size is greater than 24000 bytes
find . -size +24000c
Find files in the current directory tree whose size is less than 24000 bytes
find . -size -24000c
Find the file in the current directory tree with inode number $inum and delete it
find . -inum $inum -exec rm {} \;
Find files in the current directory whose names begin with "file" and remove them
find . -name file* -maxdepth 1 -exec rm {} \;
find files in the current directory with pattern` '*.[ch]' which are contain ‘thing’ string and print file names
find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep -l thing
find files in the current directory with pattern` '*.[ch]' which are contain ‘thing’ string and print file names which can contain spaces
find . -name '*.[ch]' -print0 | xargs -r -0 grep -l thing
find files in current folder ending with ".c" or ".h" or ".ch" and search for a word in these files and enable color highlighting of the matched text
find . -name "*.[ch]" -exec grep --color -aHn "e" {} \;
Find files in entire file system that are writable by group or other
find / -perm /g+w,o+w
Find files in entire file system that are writable by group or other
find / -perm /g=w,o=w
Find files in entire file system with at least 644 permissions
find / -perm -u+rw,g+r,o+r
find files in home directory that accessed more than 100 days ago
find ~ -atime 100
find files in home directory that names are game
find ~ -name game
find files in the home folder which have been modified in the last day. ( -daystart measures times from the beginning of today rather than from 24 hours ago.)
find ~/ -daystart -type f -mtime 1
find files in root directory that names are game
find / -name game
Find files larger than 100MB in /var/www and exclude files with /download/ in their path from the output
find /var/www/ -type f -name "*" -size +100M -exec du -h '{}' \;|grep -v /download/
Find files larger than 50k
find . -size +50k
Find files matching `.ssh*' and append their anmes to file `ssh-stuff'
find / -name .ssh* -print | tee -a ssh-stuff
Find files matching an exact set of permissions
find / -perm 644
Find files matching the pattern "./sr*sc" in their paths under current directory
find . -path "./sr*sc"
Find files matching pattern $2 in the $1 directory recursively and search them for text $3, where $1, $2, $3 are the command line arguments to the Bash script
find $1 -name "$2" -exec grep -Hn "$3" {} \;
Find files matching pattern $2 in the $1 directory recursively and search them for text $3, where $1, $2, $3 are the command line arguments to the Bash script
find $1 -name "$2" | grep -v '/proc' | xargs grep -Hn "$3" {} \;
Find files matching pattern $2 in the $1 directory recursively and search them for text $3, where $1, $2, $3 are the command line arguments to the Bash script
find $1 -path /proc -prune -o -name "$2" -print -exec grep -Hn "$3" {} \;
Find files matching regular expression regexp
find . | xargs grep regexp
Find files modified at least 5 days in the future
find . -newermt "5 days"
Find files modified between 6 and 9 minutes ago
find . -mmin +5 -mmin -10
Find files modified in the last 5 minutes starting from the current directory
find . -mmin -5
Find files modified in last 7 days
find . -mtime -7 -type f
Find files modified more recently than file poop
find . -newer poop
Find files named "blabla" in the current directory tree and print the number of lines in each of them
find ./ -name "blabla" -exec wc -l {} ;
Find files named "needle" ignoring the case
find . -iname "needle"
Find files named "ppp.conf" in the /etc directory tree
find /etc -name ppp.conf
Find files named 'core' in or below the directory /tmp and delete them
find /tmp -depth -name core -type f -delete
Find files named 'core' in or below the directory /tmp and delete them
find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f
Find files named 'fileName.txt' under '/path/to/folder' directory tree ignoring 'ignored_directory'
find /path/to/folder -name fileName.txt -not -path "*/ignored_directory/*"
Find file names *blast* in specfied directory
find /usr/local -name "*blast*"
Find file names *blast* in specfied directory, case insensitive
find /usr/local -iname "*blast*"
Find files named core in or below the directory /tmp and delete them. Note that this will work incorrectly if there are any filenames containing newlines, single or double quotes, or spaces.
find /tmp -name core -type f -print | xargs /bin/rm -f
Find files named core in or below the directory /tmp and delete them, processing filenames in such a way that file or directory names containing single or double quotes, spaces or newlines are correctly handled.
find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f
find file named foo.txt under current directory.
find . -name foo.txt
find file named foo.txt under root / directory.
find / -name foo.txt
Find files newer than `tmpfile' starting from the current directory
find . -newer tmpfile
Find files newer than start.txt but not newer than end.txt
find ./ -newer start.txt -and ! -newer end.txt
Find files not matching the patterns 'Image*-70x70*' and 'Image*-100x100*' in their names under Folder1 and copy them to Folder2
find Folder1 \( ! -name 'Image*-70x70*' -a ! -name 'Image*-100x100*' \) | xargs -i% cp -p % Folder2
Find files not matching the posix extended regex '.+\-[0-9]{2,4}x[0-9]{2,4}\.jpg' in their paths under Folder1 and copy them to Folder2
find Folder1 -type f -regextype posix-extended \( ! -regex '.+\-[0-9]{2,4}x[0-9]{2,4}\.jpg' \) -print0 | xargs -0 cp -p --target-directory=Folder2
Find files on the system accessed during the last 24 hours but not within the last hour
find / -atime -1 -amin +60
Find files on the system created during the last 50 days
find / -ctime -50
Find files on the system modified more than 90 minutes ago
find / -mmin +90
Find files on the system whose names begin with either x or X
find / -name "[Xx]*"
Find files owned by the "shadow" group
find / -group shadow
Find files owned by no group
find / -nogroup
Find files owned by no user
find / -nouser
Find files owned by nonexistent groups
find / -nogroup -print
Find files owned by nonexistent users
find / -nouser -print
Find files patching "pattern"
find . -name "pattern" -print
Find files readable only by the group
find . -perm g=r -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
Find files recursively with extension "ext"
find . -name "*.ext"
Find file size in bytes
du -b FILE
Find files starting with the word "file" in the current directory tree
find . -name "file*"
Find files starting with the word "file" in the current directory tree, ignoring the case
find . -iname "file*"
Find the files that have "644" permissions and modify them to have "664" permissions
find . -type f -perm 644 -exec chmod 664 {} \;
Find files that have a modification time of a day ago
find / -mtime 1
Find files that are 0 bytes in size in the current directory and remove them
find . -maxdepth 1 -size 0c -exec rm {} \;
Find files that are 0 bytes in size in the current directory tree and remove them
find . -size 0 -exec rm {} \;
Find files that are 100k
find -size 100k
Find files that are empty
find -empty -type -f
Find files that are orphaned
find -nouser
Find files that have been modified within the last month and copy them somewhere
find /etc/ -mtime -30 | xargs -0 cp /a/path
Find files that match the executable bit for owner or group
find -type f -perm /110
Find files that do not have a listing in the /etc/passwd or /etc/group in the file system
find / -nouser -o -nogroup
Find files that were accessed in less than a day ago
find / -atime -1
find files (under root file system /) that were accessed within the last 24 hours
find / -atime -1
Find files that were modified 7 days ago and archive them
find . -type f -mtime 7 | xargs tar -cvf `date '+%d%m%Y'_archive.tar`
Find files that were modified in less than 1 minute ago
find / -mmin -1