linux_find.md

• Find
  • Find in directory
  • Filter by type: file or directory
  • Specify name
  • Filter by modify time
  • Filter by file size
  • Filter by permission
  • Limit walk depth

Find

find – recursively walk a file hierarchy

SYNOPSIS

find [-H | -L | -P] [-EXdsx] [-f path] path ... [expression]
find [-H | -L | -P] [-EXdsx] -f path [path ...] [expression]

Find in directory

• find all files under current directory

  find .

• specify a directory, e.g. the user home directory

  find ~

Filter by type: file or directory

• find only directories

  find . -type d

• or find only files

  find . -type f

Specify name

• find all txt files

  find . -type f -name "*.txt"

• use -iname to ignore name sensitive

  find . -type f -iname "*.txt"

Filter by modify time

• find all files modified in last 10 minutes ( less than )

  find . -type f -mmin -10

• Combine! find all files modified more than 1 minute, but less than 5 minutes

  find . -type f -mmin +1 -mmin -5

• replace mmin with mtime if you want use day instead of minute.

Filter by file size

• find all files which file size is over 5M

  find . -type f -size +5M

Filter by permission

find . -perm 755

Limit walk depth

• find all markdown files in only current directory

  find . -type f -name "*.md" -maxdepth 1