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Find

Getting Started

Empty

$ find . -type d -empty

Delete all empty files in a directory

$ find . -type f -empty -delete

Multiple dirs

$ find /opt /usr /var -name foo.scala -type f

Find files with multiple dirs

Multiple filenames

$ find . -type f \( -name "\*.sh" -o -name "\*.txt" \)

Find files with .sh and .txt extensions

Owners and Groups

Find single file based on user

$ find / -user root -name tecmint.txt

Find all files based on user

$ find /home -user tecmint

Find all files based on group

$ find /home -group developer

Find particular files of user

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

Permissions

Find the files whose permissions are 777.

$ find . -type f -perm 0777 -print

Find the files without permission 777.

$ find / -type f ! -perm 777

Find SUID set files.

$ find / -perm /u=s

Find SGID set files.

$ find / -perm /g=s

Find Read Only files.

$ find / -perm /u=r

Find Executable files.

$ find / -perm /a=x

Names

Find files using name in current directory

$ find . -name tecmint.txt

Find files under home directory

$ find /home -name tecmint.txt

Find files using name and ignoring case

$ find /home -iname tecmint.txt

Find directories using name

$ find / -type d -name tecmint

Find php files using name

$ find . -type f -name tecmint.php

Find all php files in directory

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

Size
-size b 512-byte blocks (default)
-size c Bytes
-size k Kilobytes
-size M Megabytes
-size G Gigabytes
-size T Terabytes (only BSD)
-size P Petabytes (only BSD)

Type
-type d Directory
-type f File
-type l Symbolic link
-type b Buffered block
-type c Unbuffered character
-type p Named pipe
-type s Socket

Option Examples

Option Example Description
-type find . -type d Find only directories
-name find . -type f -name "*.txt" Find file by name
-iname find . -type f -iname "hello" Find file by name (case-insensitive)
-size find . -size +1G Find files larger than 1G
-user find . -type d -user jack Find jack's file
-regex find /var -regex '.*/tmp/.*[0-9]*.file' Using Regex with find. See regex
-maxdepth find . -maxdepth 1 -name "a.txt" In the current directory and subdirectories
-mindepth find / -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 5 -name pass Between sub-directory level 2 and 4

Usage

$ find [path...] [options] [expression]

Wildcard

$ find . -name "\*.txt"
$ find . -name "2020\*.csv"
$ find . -name "json\_\*"
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