Comments on: UNIX Find A File Command

By: BB

BB — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:01:33 +0000

I would like to find a “file” or “link” by a certain name. Is that possible with find ?

For example, if I have the following file in the current directory, can “find” locate
the file by either “pop” or “pullit” ?

lrwxrwxrwx 1 bb other 6 Oct 3 19:55 pop -> pullit

Thanks,
BB

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 01:11:29 +0000

find /path/to/dir -type f -name "*" -type f -exec cat -n {} \;

By: Howard

Howard — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:05:53 +0000

Regarding executing commands on files found by the find command, is it possible to execute the cat command on files found by the find command? If so, it would be great if you could provide some examples of how this could be done.

I want to use the find command to find all regular files in a directory used to store scripts and then execute either a “cat -n” or plain “cat” command to print the contents of each of the files (i.e., scripts) which were found in the directory.

Thanks. Howard

By: Ahmad Aadil

Ahmad Aadil — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:11:36 +0000

Press tab two times.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:45:43 +0000

how to see all commands in unix ?

By: neha

neha — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:40:22 +0000

nice aricle with good examples

By: sophia

sophia — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:55:40 +0000

i would like to ask how to use the find command to locate all the hidden files in a folder. the hidden files are error files.

By: bhanu

bhanu — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:49:45 +0000

find . -name “chapter*” -print | xargs grep “Bhanu”
It will search for the files starting with chapter,
and with in these files it will search for Bhanu string.

By: nephish

nephish — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:09:39 +0000

great article, thanks for putting this out there, all these find tips are in my notes now.

By: yoander

yoander — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:36:48 +0000

Also you can combine find with xargs in a powerful ways for example:

find ~/code -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -v 0700

the previous commands change mode of every file under
~/code including code directory.

By: vivek

vivek — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:25:37 +0000

Mich,

grep 'main()' *.c
grep -r "string" /home/you
find . -exec grep -H "string" '{}' \; -print

HTH

By: Mich

Mich — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:46:12 +0000

It would be interesting to know how to find files that contains certain words in the text (inside the file)