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Find-Memento

A memento about the find command, a very useful research tool

Find is a program that lets us search files in a folder tree. It is installed normally in every Linux distros. It has lots of options, basically you can find every file your want with the find command.

Basic use cases

The command find is generally used with this scheme :
'find /folder -options ...'

Simple search

Simple one :
find /home

List all the files in the directory /home We can't see files that we don't have access It lists even the files in the subdirectory

Search in our actual path : find .

Search by name :
find / -name "test.txt"

It is case sensitive

Search by extension : find / -name "*.txt"

It can be mixed with special characters : tes?.txt

Search all files which contain the name :
find / -name "*test*"

Search isensitive case : find / -iname "test.txt"

Search only files :
find / -type f -iname "test.txt"

Search only directories :
find / -type d -iname "test.txt"

Search by size :
find /boot -size +10M
find /boot -size -10M

All the options can be mixed
find /boot -size +10M -size -20M

Advanced search

Time

Search by access date : find / -atime -1

Files accessed less than a day
Exact date :
find / -atime 1

More than a day :
find / -atime +1

Created time : find / -ctime -1

Modified time : find / -mtime +1

Time in minute :
find / -amin -1

Users

Search all files created by a user :
find / -user userName

With uid : find / -uid userId

Search with group :
find / -group groupName

With gid : find / -gid groupId

Search with execution

find / -exec command {} \; find / -exec command {} +

Remove permissions errors

find / 2>/dev/null

Find empty files

find / -empty

Permissions search

find / -type f -perm 777

List file with suid (extended permissions) :
find / -perm /u=s -exec ls -la {} \;


Updated : 18/01/2021 Author : AnthonyF

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