{"id":1287,"date":"2017-04-14T17:24:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T11:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pheonixsolutions.com\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2017-04-15T14:49:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T09:19:40","slug":"learn-find-command-usages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pheonixsolutions.com\/blog\/learn-find-command-usages\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn Find Command and usages"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Learn Find Command and usages<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Date Posted: 28-03-2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Find is a command which is used to find files and directories based on various scenario. In this post, we will explain find command and usage with some examples.<\/p>\n<p>Find a filename called<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> test.txt<\/span> on the directory \/home\/pheonixsolutions. The below command\u00a0search all the directories and report\u00a0test.txt.<\/p>\n<p><code>find \/home\/pheonixsolutions\/ -type f -name test.txt<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Find filename starts test and extension is txt(say test1.txt, test2.txt, test3.txt).<\/p>\n<p><code>find \/home\/pheonixsolutions\/ -type f -name test*.txt<\/code><\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"null\">\/home\/pheonixsolutions\/test1.txt\r\n\/home\/pheonixsolutions\/test2.txt\r\n\/home\/pheonixsolutions\/test3.txt\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Find directory named called <em>dir\u00a0<\/em>on the current working directory(for current working directory, we will be using .)<\/p>\n<p><code>find . -type d -name dir<\/code><\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"null\">.\/dir1\/dir\r\n.\/dir<\/pre>\n<p>Find directory named called <em>dir<\/em> with maximum of 2 sub directories<\/p>\n<p><code>find . -type d -name dir -maxdepth 2<\/code><\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"null\">.\/dir1\/dir\r\n.\/dir<\/pre>\n<p>Find directory named called <em>dir<\/em> with minimum of 2 directories.<\/p>\n<p><code>find . -type d -name dir -mindepth 2<\/code><\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"null\">.\/dir1\/dir\r\n.\/dir1\/dir2\/dir<\/pre>\n<p>Find the file which has permission of 644.<\/p>\n<p><code>find . -type f -perm 644<\/code><\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"null\">.\/dir1\/file1.txt\r\n\/dir\/dir1\/file2.txt\r\nfile.txt<\/pre>\n<p>Execute commands to the find command result. This will list\u00a0files with full information.<\/p>\n<p><code>find . -type f -exec ls -la\u00a0<\/code><\/p>\n<p>The below example will change the permission of the find file.<\/p>\n<p><code>find . type f -exec chmod 644 {} \\;<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Assign find command result using <em>xargs.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><code>find . type f |xargs ls -la\u00a0<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Use find command result on multiple places.<\/p>\n<p><code>find . -type f |xargs -I {} mv {} {}_bak<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Find the files which are older than 3 days<\/p>\n<p><code>find . -type f -mtime +3<\/code><\/p>\n<p>To delete files which are older than 3 days.<\/p>\n<p><code>find . -type f -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \\;<\/code><\/p>\n<p>To find the files which are <em>accessed<\/em> before 5 days<\/p>\n<p><code>find . -type f -atime +5<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Find files which ownership is\u00a0\u00a0<em>pheonixsolutions<\/em><\/p>\n<p><code>find . -type f -user pheonixsolutions<\/code><\/p>\n<p>To find files which group is\u00a0<em>pheonixsolutions<\/em><\/p>\n<p><code>find . -type f -group pheonixsolutions<\/code><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn Find Command and usages Date Posted: 28-03-2017 Find is a command which is used to find files and directories based on various scenario. In this post, we will explain find command and usage with some examples. Find a filename called test.txt on the directory \/home\/pheonixsolutions. 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