Find and locate search commands

 

Locate: The search speed based on the file database is fast, and Fuzzy Matching is supported.

-I case-insensitive

-N N: after finding the corresponding file, only the first N rows are displayed.

Updatedb: generated by the locate database, but the speed is slow. You need to traverse the file.

Find: Real-Time retrieval, exact matching of file names,

Format: find [DIR,...] [CRITERIA (rule)] [ACTION...]

[ACTION] default print

[CRITERIA (rule)]: default current directory

1. Search by File Name:

-Name: search by file name. Supports file name configuration *? []

Example: find/etc-name "passwd"

-Iname is case-insensitive.

2. Search by owner and group:

-User find/home-user redhat

Ls-l 'Find/home-user redhat'

-Group same as above

-Uid: the user is deleted and the file is not deleted. The owner uid of the file

-Gid

-Nouesr has no user

-Nogroup: No group

3. Search by attribute:

-Type f d l s B c p

-Cnewer attributes

-Newer content

-Size: according to the file size [+/-] N

Exception: find/etc-size 1 M find files smaller than 1 M

2 M indicates a file with a precision of 2 M + 1 M greater than 1 M

4. Permissions:

-Perm [-/] mode + is not commonly used

Find/tmp-perm 755 exact match

Find/tmp-perm-222 owner, group, and other user permissions must match

+ 222 the same as "/" has a type of matching

/777 match a permission match

/001 match the file with the execution permission

5. According to the file time:

-Atime example: find/etc-atime + 5 indicates files not accessed within five days. "-5" indicates files that have been accessed within five days.

-Mtime: Same as above

-Ctime: Same as above

-The amin time is measured in minutes.

-The usage of mmin is the same as that of mmin.

-Cmin: Same as above

-Anewer example: find/etc-annewer/etc/passwd access time earlier than passwd access time

ACTION:

-Print default

-Ls

-OK requires confirmation

-Exec COMMAND

Find./-perm/001-not-type d-exec chmod o-x {}\;

Find./-name "[[: alpha:] [[: digit:]"-exec mv {}{}. old \;

{} Indicates the previously found file name.

Find-name "*. old" | xargs chmod 755

This article is from the "Wei's Linux bar" blog