I Use Linux at my work and as i am new to it, i was trying to exlore different commands which make my work easy.Lately i was to find one files location and in that process came across few find commands which might be useful to u all:
Listing them below,Check out!!!!!
find / -name file …this command searches thru the root directory for the file named ‘file’ and prints the location.
find . -name file …..this command would also list all the files named ‘file’ but in the current directory
find /root/home -name file ….this command would search for the file named ‘file’ through the /root and /file directories.
find /root/file -name “file*” …….this command would search in the root/file directory for all the file names that starts with the word file and lists them
find /root/file -name “*.txt” ……this would list all the text files(files with extension txt) present in the location /root/file
find . -mtime -1 …….to find all the files that were modified within the last 1 hour.
find / -size +2000 ……command to find a file sof particular size,in this case it will return all the files of size greater than 2KB.
find /home -user jonde ……find every file under the directory home owned by the user jonde
find . -size 1000c …….find files with exactly 1000 characters
find . -size +599c -and -size -701c ………find the files containg between 600 to 700 characters inclusive
find . empty ……..will list all the empty files
That’s it guys, these are the basic find commands will update the post if i find any………
Any new areas in this are welcome in the form of posts and suggestions.
Happy linuxing…[:)]
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