Name
find — Searching for files and possibly executing commands on them
Synopsis
find [path] [options]
Examples
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To list all files below a given directory, say /home/user/some-directory
find /home/user/some-directory
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To find all pdf files below that directory
find /home/user/some-directory -name “*.pdf”
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To find files containing “tutorial” in their name
find /home/user/some-directory -name “*tutorial*”
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To find files below the current directory changed in the last 3 days
find . -ctime -3
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To find files that haven’t changed in the last 365 days
find . -ctime +365
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To find all unreadable files in the current directory
find . ! -perm +444
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Same as above, but limit to the current directory and one subdirectory deep
find . ! -perm +444 -maxdepth 2
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Make all the files found in the above search readable by user and group (Assumes that you are the owner of all such files or that you are root)
find . ! -perm +444 -maxdepth 2 -exec chmod ug+r {} ;
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Two ways of searching for all .c or .h files that contain the string “gtk”. The two methods are equivalent, although xargs has mutliple options that could be used to alter its behavior and thus would be considered the more flexible method.
grep “gtk” `find . -name *.[ch]`
find . -name *.[ch] | xargs grep “gtk”
Collected from gnome developer site.