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Command ‘find’ is used to search for files and directories, Unix\/Linux<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

find [OPTION…] [PATH] [EXPRESSION…]\n
\nOPTION
\n-P: Do not follow the symbolic link, use the symbolic link’s own information
\n-L: Use file information linked to symbolic link.
\n-H: Does not follow symbolic links, except when handling Command Line Argument.
\n-D: Output debugs messages.
\nEXPRESSION
\n-name: Search for files that match the specified string pattern.
\n-empty: Search for empty directories or zero-sized files.
\n-delete: Delete the searched file or directory.
\n-exec: Execute the specified command on the retrieved file.
\n-path: Search in the path corresponding to the specified string pattern.
\n-print: Print the search results. Search items are separated by a newline. (Default)
\n-print0: Print search results. Search items are separated by null.
\n-size: Search for files using file size.
\n-type: Search for files corresponding to the specified file type.
\n-mindepth: Specifies the minimum depth of subdirectories to start searching.
\n-maxdepth: Specifies the maximum depth of subdirectories to be searched.
\n-atime: Search files based on file access time.
\n-ctime: Search files based on the time of file content and property change.
\n-mtime: Search for files based on the data modification time of the file.<\/p>\n

Combining “two or more expressions” via operator<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Expression description
\n(expression) Specifies the priority of expression.
\n!expression
\n-not expression NOT operation on the result of expression.
\nexpression -a expression
\nexpression -and expression
\nexpression expression AND operation between expressions.
\nexpression -o expression
\nexpression -or expression OR operation between expressions.<\/p>\n

When two or more expressions are used and the operator is not specified, -a (AND) is applied by default (“-empty -print” = “-empty -a -print”)<\/p>\n

An example of using the find command<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A simple search for a given name in the current directory. Specify filename after find command<\/p>\n

$ ls
\nFILE_1 FILE_2 FILE_3
\n$ find FILE_1
\nFILE_1<\/p>\n

$ find. -name “FILE”<\/p>\n

find usage example command options<\/strong><\/em>
\nList of files and directories in the current directory find
\nList of files and directories in the target directory find [PATH]\nSearch for files in all files and subdirectories under the current directory find. -name [FILE]\nSearch for a file on the entire system (root directory) find \/ -name [FILE]\nSearch for files whose filenames start with a specific string find. -name “STR*”
\nSearch for files that contain a specific string in the file name find. -name “*STR*”
\nSearch for files whose filename ends with a specific string find. -name “*STR”
\nSearch for empty directories or zero-sized files find. -empty
\nDelete after searching all files with a specific extension find. -name “*.EXT” -delete
\nPrint a list of searched files consecutively without line breaks find. -name [FILE] -print0
\nSearch only for files or directories find. -name [FILE] -type f
\nSearch for files using file size find. -size +[N]c -and -size -[M]c
\nPrint detailed information about the searched file. (find + ls) find. -name [FILE] -exec ls -l {}
\nOutput number of lines in the retrieved file. (find + wc) find. -name [FILE] -exec wc -l {}
\nFinding a string in the searched file. (find + grep) find. -name [FILE] -exec grep “STR” {}
\nSave search results to a file. (find, redirection) find. -name [FILE] &gt; [SAVE_FILE]\nDo not display error messages during search (find, redirection) find. -name [FILE] 2> \/dev\/null
\nDon’t search subdirectories find. -maxdepth 1 -name [FILE]\nCopy retrieved files. (find + cp) find. -name [FILE] -exec cp {} [PATH]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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