Find
| Task | Command |
|---|---|
| Created within 2 days | find ~/test -ctime -2 -print |
| Modified within 24 hours | find ~/test -mtime -1 -print |
| Find Text Files | find ~/test -name *.txt |
| Find empty folders | find ~/test -type d -empty |
| Delete empty folders | find ~/test -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \; find ~/ -type d -empty -delete |
| Find and Delete .ini & .db files | find ~/test -name *.ini find ~/test -name *.ini -delete find ~/test -name *.db find ~/test -name *.db -delete |
| Search all jpg images in the system and archive it | xargs tar -cvzf images.tar.gz |
| Find Files Using Name | find -name "MyCProgram.c" |
| Find Files Using Name and Ignoring Case | find -iname "MyCProgram.c" |
| Limit Search To Specific Directory | find / -name passwd |
| Find the passwd file under root and one level down | find -maxdepth 2 -name passwd |
| Executing Commands on the Files Found by the Find Command | find -iname "MyCProgram.c" -exec md5sum {} \; |
| Inverting the match | find -maxdepth 1 -not -iname "MyCProgram.c" |
| Find files which has read permission to group | find . -perm -g=r -type f -exec ls -l {} \; |
| Find files which has read permission only to group | find . -perm g=r -type f -exec ls -l {} \; |
| Find all empty files (zero byte file) | find ~ -empty |
| List all the empty files only in your home directory | find . -maxdepth 1 -empty |
| List only the non-hidden empty files only in the current directory | find . -maxdepth 1 -empty -not -name ".*" |
| Finding the Top 5 Big Files | sort -n -r | head -5 |
| Finding the Top 5 Small Files | sort -n | head -5 |
| List the smaller files other than the ZERO byte files | sort -n | head -5 |
| Find only the socket files | find . -type s |
| Find all directories | find . -type d |
| Find only the normal files | find . -type f |
| Find all the hidden files | find . -type f -name ".*" |
| Find all the hidden directories | find -type d -name ".*" |
| Show files which are modified after the specified file | find -newer ordinary_file |
| Find files bigger than the given size | find ~ -size +100M |
| Find files smaller than the given size | find ~ -size -100M |
| Find files that matches the exact given size | find ~ -size 100M |
| Remove the files named a.out frequently | alias rmao="find . -iname a.out -exec rm {} \;" # rmao |
| Remove the core files generated by c program | alias rmc="find . -iname core -exec rm {} \;"
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| Removes *.zip files that are over 100M | find / -type f -name *.zip -size +100M -exec rm -i {} \;" |
| List only files recursively without Directory name | find . -maxdepth 10 -type f -printf '%f\n' > fileslist.txt |
| Find files in directory and sub-directories updated within 60 min | find . -mmin -60 |
| Finds all the files updated within 1 day | find / -mtime -1 |
| Find files which got accessed within 60 minutes | find -amin -60 find / -atime -1 |
| Find files which changed within 60 minutes | find . -cmin -60 find / -ctime -1 |
| Restricting the find output only to files | find /etc/sysconfig -amin -30 -type f |
| Do not display hidden files in find output | find . -mmin -15 \( ! -regex ".*/\..*" \) |
| Displays all files which are modified after the /etc/passwd files was modified | find -newer /etc/passwd |
| Displays all files which are accessed after modifying /etc/hosts | find -anewer /etc/hosts |
| Displays all files whose status got changed after modifying the /etc/fstab | find -cnewer /etc/fstab |
| Long list the files which are edited within the last 1 hour | find -mmin -60 -exec ls -l {} \; |
| If multiple partitions mounted under /, this command will NOT search all mounted partitions | find / -xdev -name "*.log" |
| If you don’t want to see the errors and would like to redirect it to null | find -name "*.txt" 2>>/dev/null |
| Replaces space in all the *.mp3 files with _ | find . -type f -iname “*.mp3″ -exec rename “s/ /_/g” {} \; |
| Delete 100 days old file | find * -mtime +100 -exec rm {} \; |
| Move Specific files to another location | find ./* -name *.jpg -exec mv {} ~/Public/ \; |
- Perform Any Operation on Files Found From Find Command
find <CONDITION to Find files> -exec <OPERATION> \; m : remove the files found by find command. mv : rename the files found. ls -l : get details of the find command output files. md5sum : find command output files wc : count the total number of words on find command output files. Execute any Unix shell command/custom shell script/command on find command output files.
- List only Directories
find ~/test ! -name *.jpg ! -name *.gif ! -name *.png ! -name *.jpeg ! -name *.JPG ! -name *.bmp ! -name *.html ! -name *.htm ! -type d
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