Find to make search of files/folders easy in Linux OS

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What is Find in Linux ?

1. Find is one of the most important and used command in Linux

2. Find command is used to search and locate list of files and directories based on condition you specify for files that match the arguments.

3. Find command can be used in variety of conditions like you can use to find files by permission’s, user’s, group’s, file type, date, size, etc.

Let’s understand it practically looking at the commands

1. To find files under home directory -

   The below command will find the file type have extension as “docx” in home direcctory

    find /home -type f -name "*.docx"
   

2. To find files with suid permission

    find / -type f -perm /4000
   

3. To find files with guid permission

    find / -type f -perm /2000
   

4. To find files with sticky bit permission

    find / -type f -perm /1000
   

5. Using find command based on user’s

   The find command in Linux can be used to search for files and directories based on the owner (user). You can use the -user option to filter results by user.

    find / -user mihir
   

6. Using find command based on groups

    find / -group mihirgro
   

7. Search the file which is less that 10MB

    find / -type f -size -10M
   

8. Search the file which is more that 10MB

    find / -type f -size +10M
   

Conclusion →

So, here you saw how to use “Find” command in linux, which makes the life easy as there are lot of files and directories in linux because being a inversted tree like structure, it’s very difficult to find a particular find due to which using this command we can get the desired files and directories quickly within no time. As Find allows you to use many filter’s to search the file and directories as we saw above.

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