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Command - Find

The document provides examples of find commands to search for files and directories based on different criteria such as name, contents, size, permissions, owners and times. Some examples include using find to search the current directory for files containing "needle" in the name, find empty files in /tmp, find files modified over 90 minutes ago, and find PDFs owned by the user "seamstress".

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Command - Find

The document provides examples of find commands to search for files and directories based on different criteria such as name, contents, size, permissions, owners and times. Some examples include using find to search the current directory for files containing "needle" in the name, find empty files in /tmp, find files modified over 90 minutes ago, and find PDFs owned by the user "seamstress".

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find /dir -option param

find command in examples

Example: find . -iname “*needle*”

Where & What - Names, files & directories


look for “needle.txt” within the current directory & its subdirectories
find . -name “needle.txt”
ignore case, find “Needle” & “needle”
find . -iname “needle”
name contains “needle”; list only matching files
find . -type f -name “*needle*”
search everywhere; list only matching directories
find / -type d -name “needle”
additionally ignore all errors, such as “Permission denied”
find / 2>/dev/null -type d -name “needle”

Check file contents


check all .txt files whether they contain “needle”
find . -type f -iname "*.txt" -print | xargs grep “needle"
same as above, but now it also works with filenames that contain spaces
find . -type f -iname "*.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 grep "needle"
find all empty files in /tmp
find /tmp -type f -empty
remove all these empty files
find /tmp -type f -empty -print | xargs rm -f

File sizes & Times


files bigger than 50MB but smaller than 100MB
find / -type f -size +50M -size -100M
created during the last 50 days
find / -ctime -50
modified more than 90 minutes ago Permissions & Owners
find / -mmin +90
accessed during the last 24 hours but find all executable files
not within the last hour find / -perm /a=x
find / -atime -1 -amin +60 find files that don’t have 644 permissions
find / -type f ! -perm 644
find files with 777 permissions a nd change them to 755
find / -type f -perm 0777 -print -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find all PDFs owned by user “seamstress” (-group exists, too)
find / -user seamstress -iname “*.pdf”

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