find.md

Find

Delete files:

find . -iname "*.nope" -delete
find . -type f -name "tecmint.txt" -exec rm -f {} \;
find . -type f -name "*.txt" -exec rm -f {} \;
find . -type f -name "*.mp3" -exec rm -f {} \;

Find files created on a specific day: find . -type f -newermt 2007-06-07 ! -newermt 2007-06-08

Find files modified in the past 5 days:

find / -mtime -5 -ctime -5

Find files modified in the last minute:

find / -mmin -1

Find SUID/SGID files:

find / -type f -a \( -perm -u+s -o -perm -g+s \) -exec ls -l {} \; 2> /dev/null
find / -perm /u=s
find / -perm /g=s
find / -perm 2644
find / -perm 1551
find . -type f -perm 0777 -print
find / -type f ! -perm 777

Find read only files:

find / -perm /u=r
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 {} \;

Send output from the find command to a file:

find / -name *.mp3 -fprint nameoffiletoprintto

Find and execute a command against a file:

# Search and edit a file at the same time
find / -name filename -exec nano '{}' \;

Find single files based on user:

find / -user root -name file.txt

Find all files based on group:

find /home -group developer

Find Particular Files of User:

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

Find Size between 50MB – 100MB:

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

Find all emtpy files:

find /tmp -type f -empty

Find all empty directories:

find /tmp -type d -empty

Find all hidden files:

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