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2. linux - How can I recursively find all files in current and...

   stackoverflow.com/questions/5905054

   find . -name "filepattern" It starts recursively traversing for filename or pattern from within the current directory where you are positioned. With the find command, you can use wildcards, and various switches. To see the full list of options, type. man find Or if man pages aren't available at your system: find --help

3. Find all files containing a specific text (string) on Linux?

   stackoverflow.com/questions/16956810

   Which is what this command does: find will pass all the paths it finds to the command grep -l "text-to-find-here" <file found>". You may add restrictions to the file name, e.g. find / -iname "*.txt" to search only in files which name ends in .txt –

4. linux - Explaining the 'find -mtime' command - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com/questions/25599094

   Interestingly, the description of find does not further specify 'initialization time'. It is probably, though, the time when find is initialized (run). In the descriptions, wherever n is used as a primary argument, it shall be interpreted as a decimal integer optionally preceded by a plus ( '+' ) or minus-sign ( '-' ) sign, as follows: +n More ...

5. How to use 'find' to search for files created on a specific date?

   stackoverflow.com/questions/158044

   Example: To find all files modified on the 7th of June, 2007: $ find . -type f -newermt 2007-06-07 ! -newermt 2007-06-08 To find all files accessed on the 29th of september, 2008: $ find . -type f -newerat 2008-09-29 ! -newerat 2008-09-30 Or, files which had their permission changed on the same day:

6. How maxdepth and mindepth works with find command?

   stackoverflow.com/questions/60089514

   According to the man page of find -maxdepth levels Descend at most levels (a non-negative integer) levels of directories below the starting-points. -maxdepth 0 means only apply the tests and actions to the starting-points themselves.

7. linux - How to find directory of some command? - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com/questions/2869100

   The which command tells you which file gets executed when you run a command: which lshw sometimes what you get is a path to a symlink; if you want to trace that link to where the actual executable lives, you can use readlink and feed it the output of which :

8. linux - Recursively look for files with a specific extension -...

   stackoverflow.com/questions/5927369

   Though using find command can be useful here, the shell itself provides options to achieve this requirement without any third party tools. The bash shell provides an extended glob support option using which you can get the file names under recursive paths that match with the extensions you want.

9. How do I find all of the symlinks in a directory tree?

   stackoverflow.com/questions/8513133

   Expanding upon this answer, here are a couple more symbolic link related find commands: Find symbolic links to a specific target find . -lname link_target Note that link_target is a pattern that may contain wildcard characters. Find broken symbolic links find -L . -type l -ls The -L option instructs find to follow symbolic links, unless when ...

10. How to move or copy files listed by 'find' command in unix?

    stackoverflow.com/questions/17368872

    But our production data files might contain spaces, so most of time this command is effective: Syntax: find <path> <condition> -exec cp '{}' <copy path> \; Example find -mtime -1 -type f -exec cp '{}' inner/ \; In the second example, the last part, the semi-colon is also considered as part of the find command, and should be escaped before ...

11. How can I exclude all "permission denied" messages from "find"?

    stackoverflow.com/questions/762348

    None of the above answers worked for me. Whatever I find on Internet focuses on: hide errors. None properly handles the process return-code / exit-code. I use command find within bash scripts to locate some directories and then inspect their content. I evaluate command find success using the exit-code: a value zero works, otherwise fails.