Command of the day

#2 FIND utility

Here I am giving the “find” command utility’s purpose which will be very useful for quite to be familiar with your linux box

I am following from this day itself.Hope will be useful for you.

Very simple to learn.

Description:

basically find command used to find a file/directory in particular location.It will be used to find based on size,type,name,mtime..etc.

Examples:

Find a file using it’s name

find . -name “nava.txt”

find . -iname “navA.txt”

Here .(current directory,-name(case sensitive name of the file))

Find Empty file in / directory

find / -empty

Find Non-Hidden empty files

find  /  -maxdepth -1  -empty -not  -name “.*”

Find TOP 5 big files in Current directory

find / -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5

Find TOP 5 small files in Current Directory

find / -type  f  -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n | head -5

Find TOP 5 small files except empty files

find /  -not  -empty -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n | head -5

Find all Directories

find / -type d

Find all files

find / -type f

Find Hidden Files

find / -type f  -name “.*”

Find files by size

find / -size +100M

Note:{ +100M ( > 100MB) , -100M( < 100MB), 100M (== 100MB)  }

Finally:

Thanks for your time

Advertisement