Wednesday, August 6, 2008

File search Commands for Linux

find / -name file1 search file and directory into root filesystem from '/'
find / -user user1 search files and directories belonging to 'user1'
find /home/user1 -name \*.bin search files with '. bin' extension within directory '/ home/user1'
find /usr/bin -type f -atime +100 search binary files are not used in the last 100 days
find /usr/bin -type f -mtime -10 search files created or changed within 10 days
find / -name \*.rpm -exec chmod 755 '{}' \; search files with '.rpm' extension and modify permits
find / -xdev -name \*.rpm search files with '.rpm' extension ignoring removable partitions as cdrom, pen-drive, etc.…
locate \*.ps find files with the '.ps' extension - first run 'updatedb' command
whereis halt show location of a binary file, source or man
which halt show full path to a binary / executable


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