http://www.tecmint.com/35-practical-examples-of-linux-find-command/
Find all the files whose name is tecmint.txt in a current working directory.
# find . -name tecmint.txt
./tecmint.txt
Find all the files under /home directory with name tecmint.txt.
# find /home -name tecmint.txt
/home/tecmint.txt
Find all the files whose name is tecmint.txt and contains both capital and small letters in/home directory.
# find /home -iname tecmint.txt
./tecmint.txt
./Tecmint.txt
Find all directories whose name is Tecmint in / directory.
# find / -type d -name Tecmint
/Tecmint
Find all php files whose name is tecmint.php in a current working directory.
# find . -type f -name tecmint.php
./tecmint.php
Find all php files in a directory.
# find . -type f -name "*.php"
./tecmint.php
./login.php
./index.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 tecmint.txt and remove it.
# find . -type f -name "tecmint.txt" -exec rm -f {} \;
To find and remove multiple files such as .mp3 or .txt, then use.
# find . -type f -name "*.txt" -exec rm -f {} \; OR # find . -type f -name "*.mp3" -exec rm -f {} \;
To file all empty files under certain path.
# find /tmp -type f -empty
To file all empty directories under certain path.
# find /tmp -type d -empty
To find all hidden files, use below command.
# find /tmp -type f -name ".*"
To find all or single file called tecmint.txt under /root directory of owner root.
# find / -user root -name tecmint.txt
To find all files that belongs to user Tecmint under /home directory.
# find /home -user tecmint
To find all files that belongs to group Developer under /home directory.
# find /home -group developer
To find all .txt files of user Tecmint under /home directory.
# find /home -user tecmint -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 the files which are changed in last 1 hour.
# find / -cmin -60
To find all the files which are modified in last 1 hour.
# find / -mmin -60
To find all the files which are accessed in last 1 hour.
# find / -amin -60
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 / -size +100M -exec rm -rf {} \;
Find all .mp3 files with more than 10MB and delete them using one single command.
# find / -type f -name *.mp3 -size +10M -exec ls -l {} \;
That’s it, We are ending this post here, In our next article we will discuss more about other Linux commands in depth with practical examples. Let us know your opinions on this article using our comment section.