find Unix Utility

A find Unix Utility is a Unix utility that is a file system search utility.

• Example(s):
  • find . -type d -maxdepth 1 ! -type d -name '[!.]*' -print; find all directories in the current working directory.
  • find /var/log -name '*.csv' -exec grep --with-filename 'str ing' {} \;
  • find /var/log \( -name '*.csv' -o -name '*.tsv' \) -exec grep --with-filename 'str ing' {} \;
• Counter-Example(s):
  • locate Unix Utility.
  • whereis Unix Utility.
  • grep Unix Utility.
• See: File Operation.

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References

2013

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find
  • In Unix-like and some other operating systems, find is a command-line utility that searches through one or more directory trees of a file system, locates files based on some user-specified criteria and applies a user-specified action on each matched file. The possible search criteria include a pattern to match against the file name or a time range to match against the modification time or access time of the file. By default, find returns a list of all files below the current working directory.

    The related locate programs use a database of indexed files obtained through find (updated at regular intervals, typically by cron job) to provide a faster method of searching the entire filesystem for files by name.

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