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How to use find command in Linux

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find is a command-line utility that locates files based on some user-specified criteria and then applies some requested action on each matched object.

  • find command to search all files ending with ".log"

    • sudo find / -name "*.log"

  • find command to search all "conf" files

    • sudo find / -name "*.conf*"

  • find command to search all "conf" files in current directory

    • sudo find . -name "*.conf*"

  • find command to search all "log" files and calculate size of each file

    • sudo find / -name "*.log*" -exec du -h {} \;

    Category: Linux