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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Search_all_directories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Search all directories</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Search_all_directories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Search_all_but_one_subdirectory_tree" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Search_all_but_one_subdirectory_tree"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>Search all but one subdirectory tree</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Search_all_but_one_subdirectory_tree-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Specify_a_directory" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Specify_a_directory"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6</span> <span>Specify a directory</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Specify_a_directory-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Search_several_directories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Search_several_directories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.7</span> <span>Search several directories</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Search_several_directories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ignore_errors" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ignore_errors"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.8</span> <span>Ignore errors</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ignore_errors-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Find_any_one_of_differently_named_files" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Find_any_one_of_differently_named_files"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.9</span> <span>Find any one of differently named files</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Find_any_one_of_differently_named_files-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Execute_an_action" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Execute_an_action"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.10</span> <span>Execute an action</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Execute_an_action-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Delete_files_and_directories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Delete_files_and_directories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.11</span> <span>Delete files and directories</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Delete_files_and_directories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Search_for_a_string" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Search_for_a_string"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.12</span> <span>Search for a string</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Search_for_a_string-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Search_for_all_files_owned_by_a_user" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Search_for_all_files_owned_by_a_user"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.13</span> <span>Search for all files owned by a user</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Search_for_all_files_owned_by_a_user-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Search_in_case_insensitive_mode" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Search_in_case_insensitive_mode"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.14</span> <span>Search in case insensitive mode</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Search_in_case_insensitive_mode-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Search_files_by_size" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Search_files_by_size"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.15</span> <span>Search files by size</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Search_files_by_size-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Search_files_by_name_and_size" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Search_files_by_name_and_size"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.16</span> <span>Search files by name and size</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Search_files_by_name_and_size-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Searching_files_by_time" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Searching_files_by_time"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.17</span> <span>Searching files by time</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Searching_files_by_time-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Related_utilities" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Related_utilities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Related utilities</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Related_utilities-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>References</span> 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hreflang="cs" data-title="Find" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find" title="Find – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Find" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find" title="Find – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Find" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find" title="Find – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Find" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find" title="Find – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="Find" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find" title="Find – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Find" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_(%EC%9C%A0%EB%8B%89%EC%8A%A4)" title="Find (유닉스) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="Find (유닉스)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find" title="Find – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Find" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_(Unix)" title="Find (Unix) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Find (Unix)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find" title="Find – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="Find" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find" title="Find – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Find" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_(UNIX)" title="Find (UNIX) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="Find (UNIX)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find" title="Find – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Find" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find" title="Find – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Find" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find" title="Find – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Find" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find" title="Find – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Find" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find" title="Find – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Find" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0_find_(%D1%98%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81)" title="Команда find (јуникс) – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Команда find (јуникс)" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_(Unix)" title="Find (Unix) – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Find (Unix)" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find" title="Find – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" 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Laboratories">AT&T Bell Laboratories</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a>, <a href="/wiki/Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs" title="Plan 9 from Bell Labs">Plan 9</a>, <a href="/wiki/IBM_i" title="IBM i">IBM i</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Platform</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cross-platform" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross-platform">Cross-platform</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Command_(computing)" title="Command (computing)">Command</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a> <a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating systems</a>, <code><b>find</b></code> is a <a href="/wiki/Command-line_utility" class="mw-redirect" title="Command-line utility">command-line utility</a> that locates <a href="/wiki/Computer_file" title="Computer file">files</a> based on some <a href="/wiki/User_(computing)" title="User (computing)">user</a>-specified criteria and either prints the pathname of each matched object or, if another action is requested, performs that action on each matched object. </p><p>It initiates a search from a desired starting location and then recursively traverses the <a href="/wiki/Node_(computer_science)" title="Node (computer science)">nodes</a> (directories) of a hierarchical structure (typically a <a href="/wiki/Tree_(data_structure)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tree (data structure)">tree</a>). <b>find</b> can traverse and search through different file systems of partitions belonging to one or more storage devices mounted under the starting directory.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The possible search criteria include a <a href="/wiki/Pattern_matching" title="Pattern matching">pattern</a> to match against the <a href="/wiki/Filename" title="Filename">filename</a> or a time range to match against the modification time or access time of the file. By default, <code>find</code> returns a list of all files below the current <a href="/wiki/Working_directory" title="Working directory">working directory</a>, although users can limit the search to any desired maximum number of levels under the starting directory. </p><p>The related <code><a href="/wiki/Locate_(Unix)" title="Locate (Unix)">locate</a></code> programs use a database of indexed files obtained through <code>find</code> (updated at regular intervals, typically by <code><a href="/wiki/Cron" title="Cron">cron</a></code> job) to provide a faster method of searching the entire file system for files by name. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><code>find</code> appeared in <a href="/wiki/Version_5_Unix" class="mw-redirect" title="Version 5 Unix">Version 5 Unix</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/PWB/UNIX" title="PWB/UNIX">Programmer's Workbench</a> project, and was written by Dick Haight alongside <a href="/wiki/Cpio" title="Cpio">cpio</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-reader_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reader-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which were designed to be used together.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/GNU_Find_Utilities" class="mw-redirect" title="GNU Find Utilities">GNU</a> <code>find</code> implementation was originally written by Eric Decker. It was later enhanced by David MacKenzie, Jay Plett, and Tim Wood.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">find</span> command has also been ported to the <a href="/wiki/IBM_i" title="IBM i">IBM i</a> operating system.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Find_syntax">Find syntax</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Find syntax"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span><span class="o">[</span>-H<span class="p">|</span>-L<span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span>path...<span class="w"> </span><span class="o">[</span>operand_expression...<span class="o">]</span> </pre></div> <p>The two options control how the <code>find</code> command should treat symbolic links. The default behaviour is never to follow symbolic links. The <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-L</code> flag will cause the <code>find</code> command to follow symbolic links. The <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-H</code> flag will only follow symbolic links while processing the command line arguments. These flags are specified in the POSIX standard for <code>find</code>.<sup id="cite_ref-sus_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sus-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A common extension is the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-P</code> flag, for explicitly disabling symlink following.<sup id="cite_ref-fbsd_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fbsd-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At least one path must precede the expression. <code>find</code> is capable of interpreting <a href="/wiki/Wildcard_character" title="Wildcard character">wildcards</a> internally and commands must be quoted carefully in order to control <a href="/wiki/Glob_(programming)" title="Glob (programming)">shell globbing</a>. </p><p>Expression elements are separated by the <a href="/wiki/Command-line_argument" class="mw-redirect" title="Command-line argument">command-line argument</a> boundary, usually represented as whitespace in shell syntax. They are evaluated from left to right. They can contain logical elements such as AND (<code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-and</code> or <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-a</code>) and OR (<code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-or</code> or <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-o</code>) as well as predicates (filters and actions). </p><p>GNU <code>find</code> has a large number of additional features not specified by POSIX. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Predicates">Predicates</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Predicates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="type_filters"></span> </p><p>Commonly-used primaries include: </p> <ul><li><code>-name <i>pattern</i></code>: tests whether the file name matches the shell-glob pattern given.</li> <li><code>-type <i>type</i></code>: tests whether the file is a given type. <a href="/wiki/Unix_file_types" title="Unix file types">Unix file types</a> accepted include: <ul><li><code>b</code>: <a href="/wiki/Device_file" title="Device file">block device (buffered)</a>;</li> <li><code>c</code>: <a href="/wiki/Device_file" title="Device file">character device (unbuffered)</a>;</li> <li><code>d</code>: <i><a href="/wiki/Directory_(computing)" title="Directory (computing)">directory</a></i>;</li> <li><code>f</code>: <i><a href="/wiki/Regular_file" class="mw-redirect" title="Regular file">regular file</a></i>;</li> <li><code>l</code>: <a href="/wiki/Symbolic_link" title="Symbolic link">symbolic link</a>;</li> <li><code>p</code>: <a href="/wiki/Named_pipe" title="Named pipe">named pipe</a>;</li> <li><code>s</code>: <a href="/wiki/Unix_domain_socket" title="Unix domain socket">socket</a>;</li> <li><code>D</code>: <a href="/wiki/Doors_(computing)" title="Doors (computing)">door</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><code>-print</code>: always returns true; prints the name of the current file plus a newline to the <a href="/wiki/Stdout" class="mw-redirect" title="Stdout">stdout</a>.</li> <li><code>-print0</code>: always returns true; prints the name of the current file plus a null character to the <a href="/wiki/Stdout" class="mw-redirect" title="Stdout">stdout</a>. Not required by POSIX.</li> <li><code>-exec <i>program</i> <i>[arguments...]</i> ;</code>: runs <i>program</i> with the given arguments, and returns true if its exit status was 0, false otherwise. If <i>program</i>, or an argument is <b>{}</b>, it will be replace by the current path (if <i>program</i> is <b>{}</b>, <code>find</code> will try to run the current path as an executable). POSIX doesn't specify what should happen if multiple <b>{}</b> are specified. Most implementations will replace all <b>{}</b> with the current path, but that is not standard behavior.</li> <li><code>-exec <i>program</i> <i>[arguments...]</i> {} +</code>: always returns true; run <i>program</i> with the given arguments, followed by as many paths as possible (multiple commands will be run if the maximum command-line size is exceeded, like for <a href="/wiki/Xargs" title="Xargs">xargs</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-sus_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sus-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><code>-ok <i>program</i> <i>[arguments...]</i> ;</code>: for every path, prompts the user for confirmation; if the user confirms (typically by entering <i>y</i> or <i>yes</i>), it behaves like <code>-exec <i>program [arguments...]</i> ;</code>, otherwise the command is not run for the current path, and false is returned.</li> <li><code>-maxdepth</code>: Can be used to limit the directory depth to search through. For example, <code>-maxdepth 1</code> limits search to the current directory.</li></ul> <p>If the expression uses none of <code>-print0</code>, <code>-print</code>, <code>-exec</code>, or <code>-ok</code>, find defaults to performing <code>-print</code> if the conditions test as true. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Operators">Operators</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Operators"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Operators can be used to enhance the expressions of the find command. Operators are listed in order of decreasing precedence: </p> <ul><li><code>( expr )</code>: forces precedence;</li> <li><code>! expr</code>: true if <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">expr</code> is false;</li> <li><code>expr1 expr2</code> (or <code>expr1 -a expr2</code>): AND. <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">expr2</code> is not evaluated if <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">expr1</code> is false;</li> <li><code>expr1 -o expr2</code>: OR. <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">expr2</code> is not evaluated if <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">expr1</code> is true.</li></ul> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'fileA_*'</span><span class="w"> </span>-o<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'fileB_*'</span> </pre></div> <p>This command searches the current working directory tree for files whose names start with <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">fileA_</code> or <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">fileB_</code>. We quote the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">fileA_*</code> so that the shell does not expand it. </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'foo.cpp'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'!'</span><span class="w"> </span>-path<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'.svn'</span> </pre></div> <p>This command searches the current working directory tree except the subdirectory tree ".svn" for files whose name is "foo.cpp". We quote the <code>!</code> so that it's not interpreted by the shell as the history substitution character. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="POSIX_protection_from_infinite_output">POSIX protection from infinite output</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: POSIX protection from infinite output"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Real-world file systems often contain looped structures created through the use of <a href="/wiki/Hard_link" title="Hard link">hard</a> or <a href="/wiki/Symbolic_link" title="Symbolic link">soft links</a>. The <a href="/wiki/POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX standard</a> requires that </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>The <code>find</code> utility shall detect infinite loops; that is, entering a previously visited directory that is an ancestor of the last file encountered. When it detects an infinite loop, <code>find</code> shall write a diagnostic message to standard error and shall either recover its position in the hierarchy or terminate. </p> </blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Examples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="From_the_current_working_directory">From the current working directory</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: From the current working directory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'my*'</span> </pre></div> <p>This searches the current working directory tree for files whose names start with <i>my</i>. The single quotes avoid the <a href="/wiki/Shell_(computing)" title="Shell (computing)">shell</a> expansion—without them the shell would replace <i>my*</i> with the list of files whose names begin with <i>my</i> in the current working directory. In newer versions of the program, the directory may be omitted, and it will imply the current working directory. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Regular_files_only">Regular files only</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Regular files only"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'my*'</span><span class="w"> </span>-type<span class="w"> </span>f </pre></div> <p>This limits the results of the above search to only regular files, therefore excluding directories, special files, symbolic links, etc. <i>my*</i> is enclosed in single quotes (apostrophes) as otherwise the shell would replace it with the list of files in the current working directory starting with <i>my</i>... </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Commands">Commands</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Commands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The previous examples created listings of results because, by default, <code>find</code> executes the <code>-print</code> action. (Note that early versions of the <code>find</code> command had no default action at all; therefore the resulting list of files would be discarded, to the bewilderment of users.) </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'my*'</span><span class="w"> </span>-type<span class="w"> </span>f<span class="w"> </span>-ls </pre></div> <p>This prints extended file information. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Search_all_directories">Search all directories</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Search all directories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>/<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span>myfile<span class="w"> </span>-type<span class="w"> </span>f<span class="w"> </span>-print </pre></div> <p>This searches every directory for a regular file whose name is <i>myfile</i> and prints it to the screen. It is generally not a good idea to look for files this way. This can take a considerable amount of time, so it is best to specify the directory more precisely. Some operating systems may mount dynamic file systems that are not congenial to <code>find</code>. More complex filenames including characters special to the shell may need to be enclosed in single quotes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Search_all_but_one_subdirectory_tree">Search all but one subdirectory tree</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Search all but one subdirectory tree"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>/<span class="w"> </span>-path<span class="w"> </span>excluded_path<span class="w"> </span>-prune<span class="w"> </span>-o<span class="w"> </span>-type<span class="w"> </span>f<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span>myfile<span class="w"> </span>-print </pre></div> <p>This searches every directory except the subdirectory tree <i>excluded_path</i> (full path including the leading /) that is pruned by the <code>-prune</code> action, for a regular file whose name is <i>myfile</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Specify_a_directory">Specify a directory</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Specify a directory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>/home/weedly<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span>myfile<span class="w"> </span>-type<span class="w"> </span>f<span class="w"> </span>-print </pre></div> <p>This searches the <i>/home/weedly</i> directory tree for regular files named <i>myfile</i>. You should always specify the directory to the deepest level you can remember. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Search_several_directories">Search several directories</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Search several directories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">local</span><span class="w"> </span>/tmp<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span>mydir<span class="w"> </span>-type<span class="w"> </span>d<span class="w"> </span>-print </pre></div> <p>This searches the <i>local</i> subdirectory tree of the current working directory and the <i>/tmp</i> directory tree for directories named <i>mydir</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ignore_errors">Ignore errors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Ignore errors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>If you're doing this as a user other than root, you might want to ignore permission denied (and any other) errors. Since errors are printed to <a href="/wiki/Stderr" class="mw-redirect" title="Stderr">stderr</a>, they can be suppressed by redirecting the output to /dev/null. The following example shows how to do this in the bash shell: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>/<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span>myfile<span class="w"> </span>-type<span class="w"> </span>f<span class="w"> </span>-print<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2</span>><span class="w"> </span>/dev/null </pre></div> <p>If you are a <a href="/wiki/C_shell" title="C shell">csh</a> or <a href="/wiki/Tcsh" title="Tcsh">tcsh</a> user, you cannot redirect <a href="/wiki/Stderr" class="mw-redirect" title="Stderr">stderr</a> without redirecting <a href="/wiki/Stdout" class="mw-redirect" title="Stdout">stdout</a> as well. You can use sh to run the <code>find</code> command to get around this: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>sh<span class="w"> </span>-c<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"find / -name myfile -type f -print 2> /dev/null"</span> </pre></div> <p>An alternate method when using <a href="/wiki/C_shell" title="C shell">csh</a> or <a href="/wiki/Tcsh" title="Tcsh">tcsh</a> is to pipe the output from <a href="/wiki/Stdout" class="mw-redirect" title="Stdout">stdout</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stderr" class="mw-redirect" title="Stderr">stderr</a> into a <a href="/wiki/Grep" title="Grep">grep</a> command. This example shows how to suppress lines that contain permission denied errors. </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span>myfile<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">|&</span><span class="w"> </span>grep<span class="w"> </span>-v<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'Permission denied'</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Find_any_one_of_differently_named_files">Find any one of differently named files</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Find any one of differently named files"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">$</span><span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'*jsp'</span><span class="w"> </span>-o<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'*java'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="se">$</span><span class="w"> </span>-type<span class="w"> </span>f<span class="w"> </span>-ls </pre></div> <p>The <code>-ls</code> operator prints extended information, and the example finds any regular file whose name ends with either 'jsp' or 'java'. Note that the parentheses are required. In many shells the parentheses must be escaped with a backslash (<code>$</code> and <code>$</code>) to prevent them from being interpreted as special shell characters. The <code>-ls</code> operator is not available on all versions of <code>find</code>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Execute_an_action">Execute an action</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Execute an action"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>/var/ftp/mp3<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'*.mp3'</span><span class="w"> </span>-type<span class="w"> </span>f<span class="w"> </span>-exec<span class="w"> </span>chmod<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">644</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">{}</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\;</span> </pre></div> <p>This command changes the <a href="/wiki/File_system_permissions" class="mw-redirect" title="File system permissions">permissions</a> of all regular files whose names end with <i>.mp3</i> in the directory tree <i>/var/ftp/mp3</i>. The action is carried out by specifying the statement <code>-exec <a href="/wiki/Chmod" title="Chmod">chmod</a> 644 {} \;</code> in the command. For every regular file whose name ends in <code>.mp3</code>, the command <code>chmod 644 {}</code> is executed replacing <code>{}</code> with the name of the file. The semicolon (backslashed to avoid the shell interpreting it as a command separator) indicates the end of the command. Permission <code>644</code>, usually shown as <code>rw-r--r--</code>, gives the file owner full permission to read and write the file, while other users have read-only access. In some shells, the <code>{}</code> must be quoted. The trailing "<code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">;</code>" is customarily quoted with a leading "<code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">\</code>", but could just as effectively be enclosed in single quotes. </p><p>Note that the command itself should <b>not</b> be quoted; otherwise you get error messages like </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-output mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="go">find: echo "mv ./3bfn rel071204": No such file or directory</span> </pre></div> <p>which means that <code>find</code> is trying to run a file called '<code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-sh mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr"><span class="nb">echo</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"mv ./3bfn rel071204"</span></code>' and failing. </p><p>If you will be executing over many results, it is more efficient to use a variant of the exec primary that collects filenames up to <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">ARG_MAX</span> and then executes COMMAND with a list of filenames. </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-exec<span class="w"> </span>COMMAND<span class="w"> </span><span class="o">{}</span><span class="w"> </span>+ </pre></div> <p>This will ensure that filenames with whitespaces are passed to the executed <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">COMMAND</code> without being split up by the shell. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Delete_files_and_directories">Delete files and directories</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Delete files and directories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <code>-delete</code> action is a GNU extension, and using it turns on <code>-depth</code>. So, if you are testing a find command with <code>-print</code> instead of <code>-delete</code> in order to figure out what will happen before going for it, you need to use <code>-depth -print</code>. </p><p>Delete empty files and print the names (note that <code>-empty</code> is a vendor unique extension from GNU <code>find</code> that may not be available in all <code>find</code> implementations): </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-empty<span class="w"> </span>-delete<span class="w"> </span>-print </pre></div> <p>Delete empty regular files: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-type<span class="w"> </span>f<span class="w"> </span>-empty<span class="w"> </span>-delete </pre></div> <p>Delete empty directories: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-type<span class="w"> </span>d<span class="w"> </span>-empty<span class="w"> </span>-delete </pre></div> <p>Delete empty files named 'bad': </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span>bad<span class="w"> </span>-empty<span class="w"> </span>-delete </pre></div> <p>Warning. — The <code>-delete</code> action should be used with conditions such as <code>-empty</code> or <code>-name</code>: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-delete<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># this deletes all in .</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Search_for_a_string">Search for a string</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Search for a string"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This command will search all files from the /tmp directory tree for a string: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>/tmp<span class="w"> </span>-type<span class="w"> </span>f<span class="w"> </span>-exec<span class="w"> </span>grep<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'search string'</span><span class="w"> </span>/dev/null<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'{}'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\+</span> </pre></div> <p>The <code><a href="/wiki//dev/null" class="mw-redirect" title="/dev/null">/dev/null</a></code> argument is used to show the name of the file before the text that is found. Without it, only the text found is printed. (Alternatively, some versions of grep support a <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">-H</span> flag that forces the file name to be printed.) GNU <code>grep</code> can be used on its own to perform this task: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>grep<span class="w"> </span>-r<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'search string'</span><span class="w"> </span>/tmp </pre></div> <p>Example of search for "LOG" in jsmith's home directory tree: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>~jsmith<span class="w"> </span>-exec<span class="w"> </span>grep<span class="w"> </span>LOG<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'{}'</span><span class="w"> </span>/dev/null<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\;</span><span class="w"> </span>-print <span class="go">/home/jsmith/scripts/errpt.sh:cp $LOG $FIXEDLOGNAME</span> <span class="go">/home/jsmith/scripts/errpt.sh:cat $LOG</span> <span class="go">/home/jsmith/scripts/title:USER=$LOGNAME</span> </pre></div> <p>Example of search for the string "ERROR" in all XML files in the current working directory tree: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"*.xml"</span><span class="w"> </span>-exec<span class="w"> </span>grep<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"ERROR"</span><span class="w"> </span>/dev/null<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'{}'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\+</span> </pre></div> <p>The double quotes (" ") surrounding the search string and single quotes (' ') surrounding the braces are optional in this example, but needed to allow spaces and some other special characters in the string. Note with more complex text (notably in most popular shells descended from `sh` and `csh`) single quotes are often the easier choice, since <i>double quotes do not prevent all special interpretation</i>. Quoting filenames which have English contractions demonstrates how this can get rather complicated, since a string with an apostrophe in it is easier to protect with double quotes: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"file-containing-can't"</span><span class="w"> </span>-exec<span class="w"> </span>grep<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"can't"</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'{}'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\;</span><span class="w"> </span>-print </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Search_for_all_files_owned_by_a_user">Search for all files owned by a user</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Search for all files owned by a user"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-user<span class="w"> </span><userid> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Search_in_case_insensitive_mode">Search in case insensitive mode</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Search in case insensitive mode"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Note that <code>-iname</code> is not in the standard and may not be supported by all implementations. </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-iname<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'MyFile*'</span> </pre></div> <p>If the <code>-iname</code> switch is not supported on your system then workaround techniques may be possible such as: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'[mM][yY][fF][iI][lL][eE]*'</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Search_files_by_size">Search files by size</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Search files by size"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Searching files whose size is between 100 kilobytes and 500 kilobytes: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-size<span class="w"> </span>+100k<span class="w"> </span>-a<span class="w"> </span>-size<span class="w"> </span>-500k </pre></div> <p>Searching empty files: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>-size<span class="w"> </span>0k </pre></div> <p>Searching non-empty files: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>.<span class="w"> </span>!<span class="w"> </span>-size<span class="w"> </span>0k </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Search_files_by_name_and_size">Search files by name and size</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Search files by name and size"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>/usr/src<span class="w"> </span>!<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">$</span><span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'*,v'</span><span class="w"> </span>-o<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'.*,v'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="se">$</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'{}'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\;</span><span class="w"> </span>-print </pre></div> <p>This command will search the /usr/src directory tree. All files that are of the form <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">'*,v'</span> and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">'.*,v'</span> are excluded. Important arguments to note are in the <a href="/wiki/Tooltip" title="Tooltip">tooltip</a> that is displayed on mouse-over. </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-bash mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="k">for</span><span class="w"> </span>file<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">in</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">$(</span>find<span class="w"> </span>/opt<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">$</span><span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span>error_log<span class="w"> </span>-o<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'access_log'</span><span class="w"> </span>-o<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'ssl_engine_log'</span><span class="w"> </span>-o<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'rewrite_log'</span><span class="w"> </span>-o<span class="w"> </span>-name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'catalina.out'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="se">$</span><span class="w"> </span>-size<span class="w"> </span>+300000k<span class="w"> </span>-a<span class="w"> </span>-size<span class="w"> </span>-5000000k<span class="k">)</span><span class="p">;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">do</span><span class="w"> </span> <span class="w"> </span>cat<span class="w"> </span>/dev/null<span class="w"> </span>><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">$file</span> <span class="k">done</span> </pre></div> <p>The units should be one of <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">[bckw]</span>, 'b' means 512-byte blocks, 'c' means byte, 'k' means kilobytes and 'w' means 2-byte words. The size does not count indirect blocks, but it does count blocks in sparse files that are not actually allocated. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Searching_files_by_time">Searching files by time</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Searching files by time"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Date ranges can be used to, for example, list files changed since a backup. </p> <ul><li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-mtime</code> : modification time</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-ctime</code> : inode change time</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-atime</code> : access time</li></ul> <p>Files modified a relative number of days ago: </p> <ul><li>+[number] = At least this many days ago.</li> <li>-[number] = Less than so many days ago.</li> <li>[number] = Exactly this many days ago.</li> <li>Optionally add <code>-daystart</code> to measure time from the beginning of a day (0 o'clock) rather than the last 24 hours.</li></ul> <p>Example to find all text files in the document folder modified since a week (meaning 7 days): </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>~/Documents/<span class="w"> </span>-iname<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"*.txt"</span><span class="w"> </span>-mtime<span class="w"> </span>-7 </pre></div> <p>Files modified before or after an absolute date and time: </p> <ul><li><code> -newermt YYYY-MM-DD</code>: Last modified after date</li> <li><code>-not -newermt YYYY-MM-DD</code>: Last modified before date</li></ul> <p>Example to find all text files last edited in February 2017: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>~/Documents/<span class="w"> </span>-iname<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"*.txt"</span><span class="w"> </span>-newermt<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2017</span>-02-01<span class="w"> </span>-not<span class="w"> </span>-newermt<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2017</span>-03-01 </pre></div> <ul><li><code>-newer [file]</code>: More recently modified than specified file. <ul><li><code>-cnewer</code>: Same with inode change time.</li> <li><code>-anewer</code>: Same with access time.</li> <li>Also prependable with <code>-not</code> for inverse results or range.</li></ul></li></ul> <p>List all text files edited more recently than "document.txt": </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>find<span class="w"> </span>~/Documents/<span class="w"> </span>-iname<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"*.txt"</span><span class="w"> </span>-newer<span class="w"> </span>document.txt </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Related_utilities">Related utilities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Related utilities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><code><a href="/wiki/Locate_(Unix)" title="Locate (Unix)">locate</a></code> is a Unix search tool that searches a prebuilt database of files instead of directory trees of a file system. This is faster than <code>find</code> but less accurate because the database may not be up-to-date.</li> <li><code><a href="/wiki/Grep" title="Grep">grep</a></code> is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression and by default reporting matching lines on <a href="/wiki/Standard_output" class="mw-redirect" title="Standard output">standard output</a>.</li> <li><code><a href="/wiki/Tree_(command)" title="Tree (command)">tree</a></code> is a command-line utility that recursively lists files found in a directory tree, indenting the filenames according to their position in the file hierarchy.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GNU_Find_Utilities" class="mw-redirect" title="GNU Find Utilities">GNU Find Utilities</a> (also known as findutils) is a <a href="/wiki/GNU_package" class="mw-redirect" title="GNU package">GNU package</a> which contains implementations of the tools <code>find</code> and <code><a href="/wiki/Xargs" title="Xargs">xargs</a></code>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BusyBox" title="BusyBox">BusyBox</a> is a utility that provides several stripped-down Unix tools in a single executable file, intended for embedded operating systems with very limited resources. It also provides a version of <code>find</code>.</li> <li><code><a href="/wiki/Dir_(command)" title="Dir (command)">dir</a></code> has the /s option that recursively searches for files or directories.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs" title="Plan 9 from Bell Labs">Plan 9 from Bell Labs</a> uses two utilities to replace <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">find</code>: a <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">walk</code> that only walks the tree and prints the names and a <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">sor</code> that only filters (like grep) by evaluating expressions in the form of a shell script. Arbitrary filters can be used via pipes. The commands are not part of <a href="/wiki/Plan_9_from_User_Space" title="Plan 9 from User Space">Plan 9 from User Space</a>, so Google's Benjamin Barenblat has a ported version to POSIX systems available through GitHub.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">fd</code> is a simple alternative to <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">find</code> written in the <a href="/wiki/Rust_programming_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Rust programming language">Rust programming language</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_(Unix)&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mdfind" class="mw-redirect" title="Mdfind">mdfind</a>, a similar utility that utilizes metadata for <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a> and <a href="/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)" title="Darwin (operating system)">Darwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Unix_commands" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Unix commands">List of Unix commands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_DOS_commands" title="List of DOS commands">List of DOS commands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Filter_(higher-order_function)" title="Filter (higher-order function)">Filter (higher-order function)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Find_(Windows)" title="Find (Windows)">find (Windows)</a>, a DOS and Windows command that is very different from Unix <code>find</code></li> <li><a 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