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Find every file/directory under the directory /home owned by the user joe | find /home -user joe |
Find every file under the directory /home owned by the user joe. | find /home -user joe |
Find every file under the directory /usr ending in ".stat". | find /usr -name *stat |
Find every file under the directory /var/spool that was modified more than 60 days ago. | find /var/spool -mtime +60 |
Finds every folder with file 'header.php' within, and copies file 'topscripts.php' to every one of them. | find -type f -name 'header.php' | xargs -n 1 dirname | xargs -n 1 cp -f topscripts.php |
Find every vim undo file under current directory | find -type f -iname '*.un~' |
Find executable files | find . -perm -100 -print |
find the file "MyCProgram.c" in the current folder | find -iname "MyCProgram.c" |
find the file "dateiname" in the current folder ( case insensitive search) | find -iname "Dateiname" |
find the file "dateiname" in the entire file system ( case insensitive search) | find / -iname "Dateiname" |
find the file "filename.txt" in the entire file system | find / -name filename.txt -print |
find the file "foo.txt" in the current folder and assign the output to a variable | OUTPUT=`find . -name foo.txt` |
find the file "httpd.log" in the entire file system | find / -type f -name httpd.log |
find the file "httpd.log" in the folder /home/web-server/ | find /home/web-server/ -type f -name httpd.log |
find the file "httpd.log" in the folder /home/web-server/ ( case insensitive search ) | find /home/web-server/ -type f -iname httpd.log |
Find file `Chapter1' on the system | find / -name Chapter1 -type f -print |
Finds file 'Subscription.java' and changes to containing folder. | cd $(find . -name Subscription.java | xargs dirname) |
Finds file 'Subscription.java' and changes to containing folder. | cd `find . -name Subscription.java | xargs dirname` |
Find file `hosts' | find /etc -name hosts |
Find files accessed at 23:59 | find . -atime -1 -print |
Find files/directories in entire file system that have been modified in the last minute | find / -mmin -1 |
Find files/directories in entire file system that had their meta information changed more than 3 days ago | find / -ctime +3 |
Find files/directories in entire file system that were accessed in less than a day ago | find / -atime -1 |
Find files/directories in entire file system that were modified a day ago | find / -mtime 1 |
Find files and directories modified in last 24 hours | find . -mtime 1 |
Find files and directories modified within the last 7 days | find . -mtime -7 |
Find files/directories modified within the last day under /etc | find /etc -type f -ctime -1 |
Find files/directories modified within the last hour under current directory | find . -mtime -1 |
Find files/directories named 'TEST_3' under current directory tree | find -name TEST_3 |
Find files/directories named 'articles.jpg' under current directory tree and change their permission to 644 | find . -name "articles.jpg" -exec chmod 644 {} \; |
Find files/directories named 'document' in 'ext2' partitions in entire filesystem | find / -fstype ext2 -name document -print |
Find files/directories named 'document' in the entire filesystem and in the directory tree '/usr' even if it's in a different partition without traversing to other devices/partitions | find / /usr -xdev -name document -print |
Find files/directories named 'file.txt' in the path '/usr/lib/important/' | find / -path /usr/lib/important/*/file.txt |
Find files/directories named 'file.txt' that belong to user 'tutonics' in the entire filesystem | find / -user tutonics -name "file.txt" |
Find files/directories named 'foo' in the current partition of the root filesystem | find -x / -name foo |
Find files/directories named 'foo.bar' in the root filesystem partition | find / -name foo.bar -print -xdev |
Find files/directories named 'foo.bar' under './dir1' and './dir2' directory tree | find ./dir1 ./dir2 -name foo.bar -print |
Find files/directories named 'sar' under '/usr', '/bin', '/sbin' and '/opt' directory tree | find /usr /bin /sbin /opt -name sar |
Find files/directories named blah (case insensitive) under current directory | find ./ -iname blah |
Find files/directories named blah under current directory | find ./ -name blah |
Find files/directories named<filetype> under current directory which were accessed less than 5 days ago | find -name "<filetype>" -atime -5 |
Find files and directories newer than CompareFile under current directory | find . -newer CompareFile -print |
Find files/directories not changed in two weeks under /dev/shm | find /dev/shm /tmp -type f -ctime +14 |
Find files and directories owned by xuser1 and change their ownership to user2 | find . -user xuser1 -exec chown -R user2 {} \; |
Find files and directories that are at least seven levels of nesting in the directory /usr/src | find /usr/src -name CVS -prune -o -mindepth 7 -print |
Find files/directories that are bigger than 10000 KB in size uder '/usr/local' directory tree | find /usr/local -size +10000k |
Find files/directories that are newer than 'foo.txt' under current directory tree | find -newer foo.txt |
Find files/directories that belong to user 'ian' under '/tmp' directory tree | find /tmp -user ian |
Find files/directories that isn't owned by the user 'apache' under /var/www | find /var/www ! -user apache -print0 | xargs -0 |
Find files/directories that have no owner or group under /path | find /path -nouser -or -nogroup |
Find files/directories that have not been modified in the last one day in directories or files taken from the glob pattern '/tmp/test/*' | find /tmp/test/* -daystart -mtime +1 |
Find files/directories that does not have write permssion for group | find /path ! -perm /020 |
Find files/directories that does not have write permssion for group | find /path ! -perm /g+w |
Find files/directories that does not have write permssion for group and others | find /path ! -perm /022 |
Find files/directories under '/dir' directory tree that are newer than 'yesterday.ref' file and older than 'today.ref' file by modification time | find /dir -newer yesterday.ref -a \! -newer today.ref -print |
Find files/directories under '/usr' directory tree that are newer than /tmp/stamp$$ by modification time | find /usr -newer /tmp/stamp$$ |
Find files/directories under /tmp smaller than 100 bytes | find /tmp -size -100c |
Find files/directories under current directory and print them | find . -print0 | xargs -0 echo |
Find files/directories under current directory and print them as null terminated strings. | find -print0 |
Find files/directories under current directory excluding the path ./src/emacs | find . -path ./src/emacs -prune -o -print |
Find files/directories under current directory matching the posix-egrep type regex ".+\.(c|cpp|h)$" in their names | find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".+\.(c|cpp|h)$" |
Find files/directories under current directory that are modified exactly one hour ago | find . -mtime 1 |
Find files/directories under current directory that matches './projects/insanewebproject' in their paths | find -ipath './projects/insanewebproject' |
Find files/directories under current directory that matches './projects/insanewebproject' in their paths and show the first one | find -ipath './projects/insanewebproject'| head -n1 |
Find files/directories under current directory that matches 'projects/insanewebproject' in their paths | find -ipath 'projects/insanewebproject' |
Find files/directories under current directory that matches the regex /path/to/something[^/]*$ in their paths | find . | grep -qi /path/to/something[^/]*$ |
Find files/directories under current directory without descending into it | find -maxdepth 0 |
Find files/directories under current directory without descending into it | find -prune |
Find files and directories whose owner is daniel | find . -user daniel |
Find files/directories with exactly read,write and execute permission for all (owner, group and others) under /path | find /path -perm 777 |
Find files/directories with exactly read,write and execute permission for all (owner, group and others) under /path | find /path -perm ugo+rwx |
Find files and directories with group id 1003 | find . -gid 1003 |
Find files/directories with inode number '212042' under '/var' directory tree without traversing other devices/partitions | find -x /var -inum 212042 |
Find files and directories with the name RAID but don't traverse a particular directory | find . -name RAID -prune -o -print |
Find files/directories writable by group or others under the /path directory | find /path -perm /g+w,o+w |
Find files associated with an inode | find . -inum 968746 -exec ls -l {} \; |
Find files associated with an inode | find . -inum 968746 -print |
Find files belonging to the given owner | find /path/to/search -user owner |
Find files bigger than 20 megabytes in the home directory tree | find ~ -size +20M |
Find files by type | find -type type_descriptor |
Find files changed in the last 1 day | find . -mtime -1 -type f |
find files changed in the last 1 day | find . -mtime -1 -type f |
Find files containing `blah' in their names modified less than 2 days ago, case insensitive | find . -iname '*blah*' -mtime -2 |
Find files containing string "#!/bin/ksh" and append their names and matching strings to /tmp/allfiles | find . -type f -execdir /usr/bin/grep -iH '#!/bin/ksh' {} \; | tee /tmp/allfiles |
Find files containing string "#!/bin/ksh" and append their names and matching strings to /tmp/allfiles | find . -type f -print | xargs /usr/bin/grep -il 'bin/ksh' | tee /tmp/allfiles |
Find files ending in "f" | find . -path '*f' |
find files ending with .jpg | find . -name '*.jpg' -print ./bar/foo.jpg |
Find files in the "dir" directory tree whose names are 33 characters in length | find dir -name '?????????????????????????????????' |
Find files in $DIR_TO_CLEAN that are older than $DAYS_TO_SAVE days and print them with null character appended to their paths | find "${DIR_TO_CLEAN?}" -type f -mtime +${DAYS_TO_SAVE?} -print0 |
find files in $HOME ending in "txt" or "html" and case insensitive search for the word "vpn" | find $HOME \( -name \*txt -o -name \*html \) -print0 | xargs -0 grep -li vpn |
Finds files in 'directory' folder with the same name and location but different content than files in 'directory.original' folder and prints location of such files. | diff -qr directory directory.original | cut -d' ' -f2 | xargs dirname | uniq |
Finds files in 'directory' folder with the same name and location but different content than files in 'directory.original' folder and saves location of such files to 'directories' variable. | directories=$(diff -qr directory directory.original | cut -d' ' -f2 | xargs dirname | uniq) |
find files in /dir/path/look/up directory that names are dir-name-here | find /dir/path/look/up -name "dir-name-here" |
find files in /dir/path/look/up directory that names are dir-name-here | find /dir/path/look/up -name "dir-name-here" -print |
find files in /tmp directory that named are core and deletes them, single or double quotes, spaces or newlines are correctly handled | find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f |
Find files in the /travelphotos that are greater than 200k in size but do not have "2015" anywhere in the file name | find /travelphotos -type f -size +200k -not -iname "*2015*" |
find files in /usr directory which are modified after February 1 of the current year | find /usr -newermt "Feb 1" |
find files in the /usr/src directory with pattern` *.c that larger than 100 Kilobytes | find /usr/src -name '*.c' -size +100k -print |
Find files in the /var/log folder which were modified an hour or more ago | find /var/log/ -mmin +60 |
Find files in the /var/log folder which were modified between 60 minutes and 10 minutes ago | find /var/log/ -mmin -60 -mmin +10 |
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