Mark Beekhuizen

These are common find commands

• Find Files Using Name in Current Directory

  find . -name file.txt

• Find all the files whose name is file.txt and contains both capital and small letters in /home directory

  find /home -iname file.txt

• Find all directories whose name is file in / directory

  find / -type d -name file

• Find all php files in a directory

  find . -type f -name "*.php"

• Find all the files whose permissions are 777

  find . -type f -perm 0777 -print

• Find all the files without permission 777

  find / -type f ! -perm 777

• Find all the SGID bit files whose permissions set to 644.

  find / -perm 2644

• Find all the Sticky Bit set files whose permission are 551

  find / -perm 1551

• Find all SUID set files

  find / -perm /u=s

• Find all SGID set files

  find / -perm /g=s

• Find all Read Only files

  find / -perm /u=r

• Find all Executable files

  find / -perm /a=x

• Find all 777 permission files and use chmod command to set permissions to 644

  find / -type f -perm 0777 -print -exec chmod 644 {} \;

• Find all 777 permission directories and use chmod command to set permissions to 755

  find / -type d -perm 777 -print -exec chmod 755 {} \;

• To find a single file called file.txt and remove it

  find . -type f -name "file.txt" -exec rm -f {} \;x

• To find and remove multiple files such as .mp3 or .txt, then use

  find . -type f -name "*.txt" -exec rm -f {} \;

• To find all empty files under a certain path

  find /tmp -type f -empty

• To file all empty directories under a certain path

  find /tmp -type d -empty

• To find all hidden files, use the below command

  find /tmp -type f -name ".*"

• To find all files that belong to user User under /home directory

  find /home -user user

• To find all files that belong to the group Developer under /home directory

  find /home -group developer

• To find all .txt files of user User under /home directory

  find /home -user User -iname "*.txt"

• To find all the files which are modified 50 days back

  find / -mtime 50

• To find all the files which are accessed 50 days back

  find / -atime 50

• To find all the files which are modified more than 50 days back and less than 100 days

  find / -mtime +50 –mtime -100

• To find all 50MB files, use

  find / -size 50M

• To find all the files which are greater than 50MB and less than 100MB

  find / -size +50M -size -100M

• To find all 100MB files and delete them using one single command

  find / -type f -size +100M -exec rm -f {} \;

• Find all .mp3 files with more than 10MB and delete them using one single command

  find / -type f -name *.mp3 -size +10M -exec rm {} \;

• Find all greater than 50MB and sort

  find / -size +50M -exec du -sh {} \;

• To find all the files which are modified in the last 1 hour

  find / -mmin -60