🔰 Find

Lovely Find command options with examples

1. Find Files by Name

find /home/user/documents -name "example.txt"

2. Find Files by Extension

find /var/log -name "*.log'

3. Find Files Modified in the Last 7 Days

find /etc -mtime -7

4. Find Files Modified More Than 30 Days Ago

find /usr/local -mtime +30

5. Find and Delete Files

find /tmp -name "oldfile.txt" -delete

6. Find Empty Files or Directories

find /var/www -empty

7. Find Files Larger Than 100MB

find /home/user/downloads -size +100M

8. Find Files Owned by a Specific User

find /home -user username

9. Find Files with 0644 Permissions

find /etc -perm 0644

10. Find Files and Execute a Command (Gzip Log Files)

find /var/log -name "*.log" -exec gzip {} \;

11. Find Files and Execute a Command (Delete Empty Files)

find /home/user/documents -type f -empty -exec rm {} \;

12. Find Files and Print Their Details

find /home/user/documents -type f -exec ls -lh {} \;

13. Find Files Excluding a Specific Directory

find / -path "/proc" -prune -o -name "*.conf" -print

14. Find Files Modified in the Last 60 Minutes

find /var/www -mmin -60

15. Find and Archive Files with a Specific Extension

find /home/user/pictures -name "*. jpg" | xargs tar -czvf archive.tar.gz

16. Find Symbolic Links

find /usr/bin -type l

17. Find Files by Inode Number

find / -inum 456332

18. Find Files and Exclude a Specific File Type

find /home/user -not -name "*.txt"

19. Find Files with Specific Group Ownership

find /var/log -group syslog

20. Find Files with Specific Size Range (e.g., 50MB to 100MB)

find /home/user/downloads -size +50M -size -100M

21. Find and Sort Files by Modification Time

find /var/log -type f -exec ls -lt {} +

22. Find Files Modified in the Last 2 Hours

find /var/log -mmin -120

23. Find Files with Specific User and Group Ownership

find /home -user username -group groupname

24. Find Files with Specific File Permissions (Readable by Owner Only)

find /var/log -perm 600

25. Find Files Larger Than 1GB and Delete Them

find /var/log -size +1G -exec rm -f {} \;

26. Find Files and Limit Depth of Search to 1 Level

find /home/user -maxdepth 1 -name "*.txt"

27. Find Files Accessed More Than 90 Days Ago

find /var/log -atime +90

28. Find Hidden Files

find /home/user -name ".*"

29. Find Files Created More Than 1 Day Ago

find /home/user -ctime +1

30. Find Files by Their Type (e.g., Block Devices)

find /dev -type b

31. Find Files with Specific Permission and Exclude Others

find / -perm /a=r -not -perm /a=w

32. Find Files Containing a Specific String in the Name

find /home/user -name "*config*"

33. Find Normal Files

find /root -type f -iname pom.xml

34. Find Socket Files

find / -type s

35. Find Files by SUID (User ID)

find /usr/bin -perm -4000

36. Find Files by SGID (Group ID)

find /usr/bin -perm -2000

37. Find Sticky Files

find /usr/bin -perm -1000

38. Advanced Exclude

find -name example ! ( -name ".." -o -name "." -o -name '\\\_\\\*.sql' )

39. Rename Files Extension Recursively

find . -iname "*.yaml" -exec bash -c 'mv "$0" "${0%.yaml}.yml"' {} \;

Tips: When we mentioned %0 in Bash, We assumed you were referring to the special variable $0, which is commonly used in shell scripts. In fact %0 is a pointer to $0 variable.

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