Linux find command examples 2016-07-19 10:42
find is a very useful command when you want "find" something in Linux. In the page I will learn the basic use of this command with you. For the detail of find you can learn from manual(type man find in command line).
- find by name
[root@web_server home]# find / -name java
/usr/java
/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_79/jre/bin/java
/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_79/bin/java
/usr/bin/java
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/java
/etc/pki/java
[root@web_server home]# find / -name *ava
/usr/java
/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_79/jre/bin/java
/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_79/bin/java
/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Europe/Bratislava
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Bratislava
/usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Bratislava
/usr/bin/java
/etc/.java
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/java
/etc/pki/java
[root@web_server home]# find / -iname Java
/usr/java
/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_79/jre/bin/java
/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_79/bin/java
/usr/bin/java
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/java
/etc/pki/java
- find by size
[root@web_server home]# find /home -size +100M
/home/jdk-7u79-linux-i586.tar.gz
/home/jdk-7u79-linux-i586.rpm
- find by type (d-directory,f-regular file)
[root@web_server home]# find / -type f -name java
/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_79/jre/bin/java
/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_79/bin/java
[root@web_server home]# find / -type d -name java
/usr/java
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/java
/etc/pki/java