Comments on: Linux: Finding and Locating files with find command part # 1

By: princeda

princeda — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:42:03 +0000

Hi vivek,

How to delete the 3 days old backup files which is in /backup file, using find command?

By: chandan

chandan — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:37:07 +0000

Hi,

I am unable to find out the boot error which had occured some where in last week while rebooting the server.

Can someone help me which command to use to find that error.

Thanks

By: manpreet

manpreet — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:11:10 +0000

hiii
i want to find all files with inode number 20 and less than 20 with find command.
if someone can help me i ll be grateful to the person
thanks

By: V

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:18:45 +0000

Open all .cpp files that contain the string foo (case insensitive in them):

vi `find ./ -name ‘*.cpp’ -exec grep -qi ‘foo’ {} \; -print0 -exec echo -n ‘ ‘ \;`

Alternatively,

find ./ -name ‘*.cpp’ -exec grep -qi ‘foo’ {} \; -exec vim {} \;

The second version opens one file at a time, as it finds it. The first version takes some time to find all files first, and then opens them all :D

And, of course, in general stuff between -exec and \; can be any command you want with {} being replaced by the matched file name.

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:49:52 +0000

Use find command: find /path/to/dir -iname "*.c" -user vivek -print The -user UID : Find file is owned by user UID (numeric user ID allowed).

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:14:43 +0000

I’m hoping to find a command that will allow me to list all files owned by a specific user on a specific file systems. So, I can create a script and (using this script) be able to search for other owners on other file systems without having to edit this file.

Thanks for any help,
Alex

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:59:12 +0000

Option #1: Install gnufind

find . -iname "*.pds"

Option #2: Use Sun find command

find . -type f  -print | grep -i "*.pds"

By: Paul Hudgens

Paul Hudgens — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:20:51 +0000

By the way my previous post re: case insensitivity is for a Sun system.

Thanks

By: Paul Hudgens

Paul Hudgens — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:20:13 +0000

I’m hoping to find a command that will allow me to list all of my PDS files in a given directory but which may have a .pds suffix or a .PDS suffix or a .Pds suffix , ie case insensitive so that with a single command, I see all such files – and then perhaps send that list to a zip command.

Thanks for any help
Paul Hudgens
Denver

By: Dan Coe

Dan Coe — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:59:08 +0000

Thanks for educating me on the basics of using find on Linux. Most appreciated from a newbie.

By: Amit sharma

Amit sharma — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:50:00 +0000

Hi nix, appreciate your efforts.

For all those people who are looking for sum more examples.. do check out http://www.amitsharma.linuxbloggerscom/how_to_find.htm

With best regards..

By: Sabu

Sabu — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:43:00 +0000

Good one..2 more from me.. # files modied 3 days ago but less than 5 days. find /home -type f -mtime +2 -mtime -5 # find all files with name 'testfile' in /home directory recursively and contains the word hello. find /home -type f -name testfile | xargs grep -l -i hello

By: Sabu

Sabu — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:41:00 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:22:00 +0000

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