A collection of "find" command examples for Unix/Linux

<<<<<<<The find command is used to locate files on a Unix or Linux system.It can search the entire filesystem to find files and directories according to the search criteria you specify. Besides using the find command to locate files, you can also execute other Linux commands (grep, mv, rm, etc.) on the files and directories you find, which makes find extremely powerful.>>>>>>>

• 1.  find / -name xyz

             This will search the whole system for any files named xyz and display their 

                        path names.Here we are using the criterion -name with the argument xyz to

                        tell find  to perform a name search for  the file name xyz.

  2. find /tmp /var/tmp . $HOME -name xyz

                        You can specify as many places to search as you wish. 
  

  3. find / -type f -mtime -7 | xargs tar -rf weekly_incremental.tar
                        Here's an example using two search criteria, will find any regular files
                        ( i.e., not directories or other special files) with the criteria “‑type f”, 
                        and  only  those modified seven or fewer days ago (“‑mtime ‑7”).
  4.  find / -name xyz | xargs /bin/rm -f
  5.  find / -name xyz -exec /bin/rm -f '{}' \;       # same thing
  6.  find / -name xyz -delete                               # same if using Gnu find
                         Another use of xargs is illustrated above.  This command will 
                         efficiently remove all files named xyz from your system (provided you 
                         run the command as root of course) 
  7.  find . -iname xyz            # find xyz, Xyz, XYz, xyZ etc, case-insensitive searching
  
  

  8.   find . -iname xyz  -type d     # Same thing but only directory

  9.   find . -type f \( -name "*.c" -o -name "*.sh" \) 

                          find files with different extensions

  10. find . -type f \( -name "*php" -o -name "*jsp" -o -name "*html" \)

                          find files with different extensions for three patterns.

  11. find . -type f -name "*.mp3" -exec cp {} /tmp/MusicFiles \;

                          cp *.mp3 files to /tmp/MusicFiles

   12. find dir1 dir2 dir3 dir4 -type d -exec cp header.shtml {} \; 

                          copy the file header.shtml to those dirs 

  13. find . -type d -name xyz -exec rm -r {} \; 

                         remove all subdirectories named "xyz" under current dir

  14. find . -mtime 1               # 24 hours
  15. find . -mtime -7              # last 7 days
  16. find . -mtime -7 -type f      # just files
  17. find . -mtime -7 -type d      # just dirs 

                          find files by modification time