10 ways to use the UNIX find command

Finding a single file Link to heading

$ find /etc/ -name httpd.conf

Finding directories only Link to heading

$ find . –type d –name code

Listing zero sized files and directories Link to heading

$ find ~ -empty -exec ls {} \;

Finding all the files of a given user Link to heading

$ find . -user www

Finding files within a size range Link to heading

The following command finds files that are bigger than 100 Mbytes:

$ find . –size +100M

Finding files using date parameters Link to heading

The following command finds files that are older than 15 days:

$ find . –mtime +15

The following command files all the files named Makefile and loads all of them in the vi editor: Link to heading

$ vi `find . -name Makefile`

Defining the directory depth of the search Link to heading

$ find . -maxdepth 3

The following command finds the files that end in either .m or .c: Link to heading

The find command also supports logical expressions

$ find . \( -name "*.c" -o -name "*.m" \)

The following command finds all the files in the current folder and its subfolders that are owned neither by user mtsouk nor by user www: Link to heading

$ find . ! \( -user www -o -user mtsouk \) -exec ls –l {} \;