The Linux Find command

Linux is an "all-in-one" operating system, and the Find (find files) directive is especially important. The Find command searches the directory structure for a file and performs the specified action.

1. Command format:

Find Pathname-options [-print-exec-ok ...]

2. Command function:

Used to find files in the file tree and to make appropriate processing.

3. Command parameters:

Pathname: The directory path that the Find command looks for.

-print: The Find command outputs the matched file to standard output.

-exec: The Find command executes the shell command given by this parameter to the matching file in the form of ' command ' {} \;

-ok: The same as-exec, except that the shell command given by the parameter is executed in a more secure mode, prompting the user to determine whether to execute before executing each command.

4. Command options:

1) Find files by file name -name

2) find files by file permissions -perm

3) Find files by file owner and owning group -user-group

-user Search for files according to the owner of the file.

-group finds files according to the group to which the files belong.

4) Find files by file time -mtime-ctime-atime

-mtime-n +n The file changes time to find the file,-n means that the file change time is now less than n days, +n indicates that the file change time is now N days ago.

The Find command also has the-atime and-ctime options, but they are all similar to the-mtime option, so we'll just describe the-mtime option here.

5) Find files by file type -type

File types such as: B-block device files; D-directories; C-character device files; p-pipe files; L-symbol link files; F-common files; s-socket files.

6) Find files by file size -size N[c]

-size N[c] finds files with a file length of n blocks, with C indicating the length of the file in bytes.

7) search file depth by file -depth-maxdepth-mindepth

-depth when looking for a file, first find the file in the current directory, and then look in its subdirectories.

Description:find. -depth-name "File" –print it will first match all the files and then go to the subdirectory to find file.

In the root directory rating lookup:

-prune Use this option to have the Find command not be found in the currently specified directory, and if the-depth option is used at the same time, the-prune option will be ignored by the Find command.

Linux Find command