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Mommy, I found it! — 15 Practical Linux Find Command Examples

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Apart from the basic operation of looking for files under a directory structure, you can also perform several practical operations using find command that will make your command line journey easy.

In this article, let us review 15 practical examples of Linux find command that will be very useful to both newbies and experts.


First, create the following sample empty files under your home directory to try some of the find command examples mentioned below.

# vim create_sample_files.sh
touch MybashProgram.sh
touch mycprogram.c
touch MyCProgram.c
touch Program.c

mkdir backup
cd backup

touch MybashProgram.sh
touch mycprogram.c
touch MyCProgram.c
touch Program.c

# chmod +x create_sample_files.sh

# ./create_sample_files.sh

# ls -R
.:
backup                  MybashProgram.sh  MyCProgram.c
create_sample_files.sh  mycprogram.c      Program.c

./backup:
MybashProgram.sh  mycprogram.c  MyCProgram.c  Program.c

1. Find Files Using Name

This is a basic usage of the find command. This example finds all files with name — MyCProgram.c in the current directory and all its sub-directories.

# find -name "MyCProgram.c"
./backup/MyCProgram.c
./MyCProgram.c

2. Find Files Using Name and Ignoring Case

This is a basic usage of the find command. This example finds all files with name — MyCProgram.c (ignoring the case) in the current directory and all its sub-directories.

# find -iname "MyCProgram.c"
./mycprogram.c
./backup/mycprogram.c
./backup/MyCProgram.c
./MyCProgram.c

3. Limit Search To Specific Directory Level Using mindepth and maxdepth

Find the passwd file under all sub-directories starting from root directory.

# find / -name passwd
./usr/share/doc/nss_ldap-253/pam.d/passwd
./usr/bin/passwd
./etc/pam.d/passwd
./etc/passwd


Find the passwd file under root and one level down. (i.e root — level 1, and one sub-directory — level 2)

# find -maxdepth 2 -name passwd
./etc/passwd


Find the passwd file under root and two levels down. (i.e root — level 1, and two sub-directories — level 2 and 3 )

# find / -maxdepth 3 -name passwd
./usr/bin/passwd
./etc/pam.d/passwd
./etc/passwd


Find the password file between sub-directory level 2 and 4.

# find -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 5 -name passwd
./usr/bin/passwd
./etc/pam.d/passwd

4. Executing Commands on the Files Found by the Find Command.

In the example below, the find command calculates the md5sum of all the files with the name MyCProgram.c (ignoring case). {} is replaced by the current file name.

# find -iname "MyCProgram.c" -exec md5sum {} \;
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  ./mycprogram.c
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  ./backup/mycprogram.c
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  ./backup/MyCProgram.c
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  ./MyCProgram.c

5. Inverting the match.

Shows the files or directories whose name are not MyCProgram.c .Since the maxdepth is 1, this will look only under current directory.

# find -maxdepth 1 -not -iname "MyCProgram.c"
.
./MybashProgram.sh
./create_sample_files.sh
./backup
./Program.c

6. Finding Files by its inode Number.

Every file has an unique inode number, using that we can identify that file. Create two files with similar name. i.e one file with a space at the end.

# touch "test-file-name"

# touch "test-file-name "
[Note: There is a space at the end]

# ls -1 test*
test-file-name
test-file-name


From the ls output, you cannot identify which file has the space at the end. Using option -i, you can view the inode number of the file, which will be different for these two files.

# ls -i1 test*
16187429 test-file-name
16187430 test-file-name


You can specify inode number on a find command as shown below. In this example, find command renames a file using the inode number.

# find -inum 16187430 -exec mv {} new-test-file-name \;

# ls -i1 *test*
16187430 new-test-file-name
16187429 test-file-name


You can use this technique when you want to do some operation with the files which are named poorly as shown in the example below. For example, the file with name — file?.txt has a special character in it. If you try to execute “rm file?.txt”, all the following three files will get removed. So, follow the steps below to delete only the “file?.txt” file.

# ls
file1.txt  file2.txt  file?.txt


Find the inode numbers of each file.

# ls -i1
804178 file1.txt
804179 file2.txt
804180 file?.txt


Use the inode number to remove the file that had special character in it as shown below.

# find -inum 804180 -exec rm {} \;

# ls
file1.txt  file2.txt
[Note: The file with name "file?.txt" is now removed]

7. Find file based on the File-Permissions

Following operations are possible.

  • Find files that match exact permission
  • Check whether the given permission matches, irrespective of other permission bits
  • Search by giving octal / symbolic representation


For this example, let us assume that the directory contains the following files. Please note that the file-permissions on these files are different.

# ls -l
total 0
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:31 all_for_all
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:30 everybody_read
---------- 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:31 no_for_all
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:29 ordinary_file
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:27 others_can_also_read
----r----- 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:27 others_can_only_read


Find files which has read permission to group. Use the following command to find all files that are readable by the world in your home directory, irrespective of other permissions for that file.

# find . -perm -g=r -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:30 ./everybody_read
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:31 ./all_for_all
----r----- 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:27 ./others_can_only_read
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:27 ./others_can_also_read


Find files which has read permission only to group.

# find . -perm g=r -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
----r----- 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:27 ./others_can_only_read


Find files which has read permission only to group [ search by octal ]

# find . -perm 040 -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
----r----- 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:27 ./others_can_only_read

8. Find all empty files (zero byte file) in your home directory and its subdirectory

Most files of the following command output will be lock-files and place holders created by other applications.

# find ~ -empty


List all the empty files only in your home directory.

# find . -maxdepth 1 -empty


List only the non-hidden empty files only in the current directory.

# find . -maxdepth 1 -empty -not -name ".*"

9. Finding the Top 5 Big Files

The following command will display the top 5 largest file in the current directory and its subdirectory. This may take a while to execute depending on the total number of files the command has to process.

# find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5

10. Finding the Top 5 Small Files

Technique is same as finding the bigger files, but the only difference the sort is ascending order.

# find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n  | head -5


In the above command, most probably you will get to see only the ZERO byte files ( empty files ). So, you can use the following command to list the smaller files other than the ZERO byte files.

# find . -not -empty -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n  | head -5

11. Find Files Based on file-type using option -type

Find only the socket files.

# find . -type s


Find all directories

# find . -type d


Find only the normal files

# find . -type f


Find all the hidden files

# find . -type f -name ".*"


Find all the hidden directories

# find -type d -name ".*"

12. Find files by comparing with the modification time of other file.

Show files which are modified after the specified file. The following find command displays all the files that are created/modified after ordinary_file.

# ls -lrt
total 0
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:27 others_can_also_read
----r----- 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:27 others_can_only_read
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:29 ordinary_file
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:30 everybody_read
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:31 all_for_all
---------- 1 root root 0 2009-02-19 20:31 no_for_all

# find -newer ordinary_file
.
./everybody_read
./all_for_all
./no_for_all

13. Find Files by Size

Using the -size option you can find files by size.

Find files bigger than the given size

# find ~ -size +100M


Find files smaller than the given size

# find ~ -size -100M


Find files that matches the exact given size

# find ~ -size 100M


Note: – means less than the give size, + means more than the given size, and no symbol means exact given size.

14. Create Alias for Frequent Find Operations

If you find some thing as pretty useful, then you can make it as an alias. And execute it whenever you want.


Remove the files named a.out frequently.

# alias rmao="find . -iname a.out -exec rm {} \;"
# rmao


Remove the core files generated by c program.

# alias rmc="find . -iname core -exec rm {} \;"
# rmc

15. Remove big archive files using find command

The following command removes *.zip files that are over 100M.

# find / -type f -name *.zip -size +100M -exec rm -i {} \;"

Remove all *.tar file that are over 100M using the alias rm100m (Remove 100M). Use the similar concepts and create alias like rm1g, rm2g, rm5g to remove file size greater than 1G, 2G and 5G respectively.

# alias rm100m="find / -type f -name *.tar -size +100M -exec rm -i {} \;"
# alias rm1g="find / -type f -name *.tar -size +1G -exec rm -i {} \;"
# alias rm2g="find / -type f -name *.tar -size +2G -exec rm -i {} \;"
# alias rm5g="find / -type f -name *.tar -size +5G -exec rm -i {} \;"

# rm100m
# rm1g
# rm2g
# rm5g

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  • Mathias March 4, 2009, 12:12 pm

    Really nice overview, thanks. As an addition a very handy combination of find and grep I use almost every day: find a string inside a filename.

    find . -type f -exec grep -qi “foo” {} \; -print

  • ejjp March 4, 2009, 12:12 pm

    Hello,

    good examples! Some was unknows for me.

    could you explain some examples to find files by date range (creation, modification,..etc)?

  • Tim March 4, 2009, 2:24 pm

    Hello,

    It was a long time I wanted to really know how to use this command. Now I know, Thanks.

  • myselfhimself March 4, 2009, 7:25 pm

    you can use find for setting permissions
    this is useful for server side scripts for example:

    find /var/www/ -name “*.php*” -exec chmod 644 {} \; #changes permissions of all php php4 php5.. files in /var/www/ to 644 (user:rw group:r other:r)

    also note that the -exec thing can be done by piping to xargs:
    find -name “*~” | xargs rm #is equivalent to rm -r “*~” ; and this removes all files ending with ~ as a last chacter, under the present folder. Usually files ending with ~ are temporary files created by text editors such as kate.
    or
    find -name “*~” | xargs -i echo file {} is maybe useless ; #using the -i option allows you to tell where the parameter received by xargs over stdin will go in the command given to xargs for executing.

  • find command user March 5, 2009, 3:45 am

    find . -type f -print | xargs grep -ni “mystring”

  • Thanh Dat March 5, 2009, 6:44 am

    Very nice post, thanks !!!
    More details can be found in Unix Power Tools (Oreilly) which contains many other super-cool tools ^^

  • Aleš Friedl March 5, 2009, 8:11 am

    Just small note – there is a much more straightforward way to remove files with wildchars. Just

    rm “test?.txt”

  • Aleš Friedl March 5, 2009, 8:22 am

    Mathias:

    It is useful to distinguish

    find . -type f -iname “*foo*”

    where you can use patterns with wildcards vs. more complicated but more powerful

    find . -type f -exec grep -qi “…regexp…” {} \; -print

    as people often do not need regular expressions and the first is more easy to remember and type.

  • Eric Wendelin March 5, 2009, 3:05 pm

    You can also find files changed in the last day:
    find . -ctime -1 -type f

    also, “find . -print0 | xargs -0 cmd” is safer than just using xargs.

  • Bala March 7, 2009, 1:48 pm

    I was looking for something like for a long time.

  • Mit March 9, 2009, 7:42 am

    Excellent work buddy! Thanks.

  • Mike J. March 12, 2009, 11:40 am

    Great post. Find combined with -exec is one of the most powerful and useful utilities.
    Re: #5 Inverting the match- at least on some flavors you can use \! as a shortcut for -not -iname…

    # find -not -iname “MyCProgram.c”
    # find 1 \! “MyCProgram.c”

  • Mike J. March 12, 2009, 5:58 pm

    Sorry my previous comment example was in correct.
    It should read…
    # find \! -iname “MyCProgram.c”
    # find -not -iname “MyCProgram.c”

  • Daemon March 24, 2009, 3:03 am

    Gr8, thanks.

    How to find files that are newly created 5 or 10 minutes before ?

  • Hari April 7, 2009, 6:39 am

    We can find the latest access/changed files using following command,
    $ find -cmin

  • peter May 12, 2009, 2:19 am

    I’m using macosx tiger and if I use the command for example:
    find -iname “MyCProgram.c”
    then:
    find: illegal option — i
    find: illegal option — n
    find: illegal option — a
    find: illegal option — m
    find: illegal option — e

    Why?

  • Speed Racer May 12, 2009, 6:13 am

    @peter

    try this:

    find . -iname “MyCProgram.c”

  • James May 12, 2009, 4:32 pm

    @peter: install Ubuntu and try again. 🙂

  • Mike May 13, 2009, 3:34 am

    # alias rmc=”find . -iname core -exec rm {} \;”
    # rmc

    find has a -delete option so that the upper can simply look like:

    # alias rmc=”find . -iname core -delete”
    # rmc

  • peter May 24, 2009, 2:56 am

    You may also get a speed up using:

    find … -exec cmd ‘{}’ +

    (note: this is also an alternative to using xargs -0)

  • shellbasher May 25, 2009, 6:22 pm

    Late comment for peter, he should install an alias in his .profile or .bashrc like this:
    alias find=/sw/bin/find
    because there is another find command which are preceding the right one in the default path string.

  • Komal July 6, 2009, 5:43 am

    When I am doing find -inum , I am not getting any output for some files inode numbers.Why this is happening?

  • Ramesh Natarajan July 8, 2009, 11:01 pm

    @Tim, @Bala, @Mit, Thanks for your comment. I’m very glad that you found this article helpful.

    @ejjp, @Daemon, To find files based on date, refer to our Find Command Examples (Part 2) article.

    @Mathias, @myselfhimself, @find command user, @Aleš Friedl, @Eric Wendelin, @Mike J, @Hari, @Mike, @Peter, @shellbasher, @Geoff, Thanks for sharing your awesome examples on find command. I appreciate it.

    @Thanh Dat, Yes. I agree. Unix Power Tools, Third Edition is an excellent book with lot of practical examples.

    @Speed Racer, @James, Thanks for helping out Peter. 🙂

    @Komal, Can you give us an example of exactly what command you tried and what was your output? Did you give the correct inode number in the find command?

  • Gabriel July 23, 2009, 1:52 am

    Thank You Ramesh for the useful examples, especialy for the commands that remove the big files.

  • Ramesh Natarajan July 25, 2009, 12:25 am

    @Gabriel,

    Thanks for the comments. I’m very glad that you found this article helpful in removing the big files on your linux system.

  • chandan March 31, 2010, 11:34 pm

    Hi,

    I am unable to find out the boot error which had occured some where in last week while rebooting the server.

    Can someone help me out finding that error.

    Thanks

  • raj August 27, 2010, 1:08 am

    Really it is helping me a lot,…

  • charles October 25, 2010, 4:57 am

    Hai ,
    find has an inbuilt -ls option , which greatly reduces the fork time incured when we use -exec ls . you may use
    find /opt -type f -size +10000000c -ls | sort -nk 7 | tail

  • Lew January 8, 2011, 1:48 pm

    I know # is for using comments in Linux, so I don’t understand your use of it in some lines like eg these:
    # vim create_sample_files.sh
    # chmod +x create_sample_files.sh
    # ./create_sample_files.sh
    Am I supposed to add the “#”? Are these comments and shouldn’t I type ’em at all?
    Since the tutorial is also for newbies, as you wrote, could you explain please?
    Thanks 🙂

  • Venkat Subramanian January 20, 2011, 7:30 pm

    Hey Ramesh !! You Rock man.. I love this website and ur free books.. Thanks for all the work you are doing!! I am proud of you!! 🙂

  • lokesh grover March 22, 2011, 11:06 am

    I m student of iacm for hardware networking . I m gain the extra knowldge of linux and networking .

  • chamu May 3, 2011, 11:48 am

    Hi Ramesh,
    I like these commands and examples. Really of a help even for an experienced software developer who does not have hands on shell scripting. Keep up the servi

  • ionh May 16, 2011, 3:32 pm

    I’ve been trying to figure out how to “find” a set of files, with *both* inclusive and exclusive name filters, and then execute a command on the results – conceptually, something like:

    find . -iname “*.txt” -exec grep -v blob ; cp {} MyDir \;

    Of course, this is broken, but should indicate what i’m trying to do, namely,
    find all “*.txt” files; reject any that are “*blob*”; and copy the rest to the MyDir directory.

    Anyone know how to do this?

  • Peng July 9, 2011, 10:22 pm

    hi ionh,

    step 1, find all .txt files in the current directory and all of its subdirectories
    $ find . -type f -name “*.txt”
    step 2, pipe the result to grep, find those files containing ‘blob’
    $ find . -type f -name “*.txt” | grep ‘blob’
    step 3, add ‘-v’ (invert-match), find those files not containing ‘blob’
    $ find . -type f -name “*.txt” | grep -v ‘blob’
    step 4, pipe the file list to xargs, which breaks the list into sublists and deal with each one of them, note here we have to use ‘–target-directory’ to clarify our intention.
    $ find . -type f -name “*.txt” | grep -v ‘blob’| xargs cp –target-directory=newDir

    now you got all the files you want in the newDir. Mission completed! hope this helps.

    Peng

    note the ‘–target-directory’ above has 2 hyphen-minuses, instead of a dash, this website made it barely recognizable. you’ll know what i am talking about if you ‘cp –help’.

  • shubham July 13, 2011, 3:24 am

    Wonderful!!

  • Vimal Roy October 13, 2011, 3:21 am

    great cmds and example. thank u very much. need more……

  • debasis November 13, 2011, 3:39 am

    can anyone please tell me
    the use of “prune” in linux.
    please explain it with example.

    thanx alot

  • Roberto January 27, 2012, 4:06 am

    Hello Ramesh! Many thanks for all this useful information. Im currently preparing to take my LPI-C 1 exam and while looking for more info in regard find command I found this web site. However, Im still have one initial question unaswered, what is the {} \; for?
    {} is replaced by the current file name.( I got this)
    then you have that backslash there and and semi-colon. I guessed this is related to the shell environment. Any chance that you or other internauts of this web site could explain a little bit further?
    Kind Regards

  • Dan January 31, 2012, 9:50 am

    I just came across a few articles on thegeekstuff.com, this being one of them. All I can say is, with writing like this there is hope that “normal people” will learn Linux. I’ve been in the industry for 7 years now (programming degree, etc) and this is some of the best, if not THE best written Linux quickref doco I’ve seen. Normal geeks (like me, as opposed to command line junkies) don’t read man pages because they’re written like scientific notation and contain virtually no examples. And if they do contain examples, they’re for rare cases that I virtually never use. This stuff is written well, to the point without lots of unnecessary verbiage, and has examples I can actually use. Great work guys!

  • Abhijit February 15, 2012, 12:47 am

    Awesome Work !!!!. Please keep enlightening all of us ….

  • mr March 15, 2012, 7:13 am

    RE: 6. Finding Files by its inode Number.
    RE: find command renames a file using the inode number.
    RE: # find -inum 16187430 -exec mv {} new-test-file-name \;

    Warning: Running the above command will erase any duplicate hard links to inode 16187430. “new-test-file-name” will still point to inode 16187430 afterward, but duplicate hard links to inode 16187430 using other file names or paths will be gone.

    While odds are low duplicate hard links exist, a safer method would check for duplicate hard links to inode 16187430:
    find -inum 16187430 -printf “%n %p\n”

    The 1st column in the output displays the hard link count and any duplicate files hard linking to inode 16187430. If the hard link count is 1, no hard links to inode 16187430 exist and the top command is safe to use.

    And yes, the article is old but none of the comments referenced this.

  • priya March 25, 2012, 11:16 pm

    Could you please explain the usage of mindepth and maxdepth…and the above mentioned example of finiding passwd file in between level 2 and 4…..

  • ramanathan July 14, 2012, 3:01 pm

    Hi all,
    i get the following error when performing 3rd one on above!!

    `/proc/16918/task/16918/fd’: Permission denied
    find: `/proc/16918/task/16918/fdinfo’: Permission denied
    find: `/proc/16918/fd’: Permission denied
    find: `/proc/16918/fdinfo’: Permission denied
    find: `/proc/16935/task/16935/fd’: Permission denied
    find: `/proc/16935/task/16935/fdinfo’: Permission denied
    find: `/proc/16935/fd’: Permission denied
    find: `/proc/16935/fdinfo’: Permission denied
    find: `/sys/kernel/debug’: Permission denied
    /home/ram/ramapala/bo
    find: `/lost+found’: Permission denied
    find: `/tmp/vmware-root’: Permis

  • dhandayuthabani August 14, 2012, 2:51 am

    awesome explanation for find command thanks a lot….do it for all the unix commands

  • Peter November 3, 2012, 4:29 pm

    Hi.

    I am looking for a FIND IF REMOVE command. I know it can be done but don’t know how to do it. I believe this is referred to a conditional expression. I am out of my depth here.

    I want to remove the smallest sized file IF a larger version exists of the same file (because it will be a better quality data). Both files will have the same date but the smaller files will have slightly different names, e:g cooking1-photograph100px.jpg as opposed to cooking1-photograph200px.jpg

    There are thousands of files on my system in dozens of different directories.

    How can I use the FIND and REMOVE IF commands if criteria are met so as to remove multiple files using a wild card to represent the consistent parts of the file name so that it will remove all smaller sized versions of a file, ONLY if a larger version exist on my system?

    eg: Find and remove the file cooking1-photograph100px.jpg IF cooking1-photograph200px.jpg exists, but to leave cooking1-photograph100.jpg if no other other file named “cooking1-photograph”*.jpg exists?

    Obviously I need to use a wild card in place of, for example “cooking1-photograph” so that the command will find all files listed not just as “cooking1-photograph” but also “cooking2-photograph” and “cooking3-photograph” and then apply the conditional criteria looking for “100”, then deleting the file *100.jpg IF file *200.jpg is found.

    I have thousands of files that I need to sort through and cull.

    Can this be done? Please tell me how.

    Thank you
    Peter

  • Aishwarya April 26, 2013, 3:47 am

    For finding big/small files sorting is being done on the basis of block size. I have tried sorting based on the actual size. Here it is :

    9. Finding the Top 5 Big Files
    find . -type f -ls | awk ‘{print $7″\t”$11}’ | sort -nr | head -5

    10. Finding the Top 5 Small Files
    find . -type f -ls | awk ‘{print $7″\t”$11}’ | sort -n | head -5

  • pranil June 18, 2013, 1:21 pm

    Hi,
    I have 100 files. and out of those in 80 files there is a particular string ‘john’.
    Now my objective is to find all those files which contains the string ‘john’ and remove them. can any one please help me to do that..

  • Aishwarya June 19, 2013, 1:12 am

    @pranil

    # go to the directory in which 100 files are present
    # and try out the instructions below on your prompt
    ls | while read fileName
    do
    sed s:John::g $fileName -i
    done

  • Dick Summerfield October 5, 2013, 1:36 pm

    @ramanathan:
    I don’t suppose you will benefit from this answer a year later than your question but maybe others will. If you add 2>/dev/null to the command (i.e. redirect stderr to the bit-bucket) the error messages (caused because you don’t have rights to the directories) will not be displayed.
    So the full thing will be:
    $ find / -name passwd 2>/dev/null
    /usr/bin/passwd
    /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/passwd
    /usr/share/lintian/overrides/passwd
    /usr/share/doc/passwd
    /etc/pam.d/passwd
    /etc/passwd
    /etc/cron.daily/passwd
    (results from my computer)

  • Ezra October 29, 2013, 9:13 pm

    Awesome article.

  • `Shirsh November 22, 2013, 10:56 pm

    plz leave a reply….
    if i want to list the files after finding them and then i want to delete those listed files…how can i do that????

  • Ravi January 29, 2014, 12:10 pm

    Its very usefull

  • Daryl February 9, 2014, 4:41 pm

    My Beaglebone Black will run simple programs ( flash LEDs) for 4 -5 hours then stop;
    What is going on? I suspect a ‘ cron ‘ or ‘ at’ setting.

  • Anonymous February 21, 2014, 1:04 am

    find -maxdepth 1 -not -iname “MyCProgram.c”
    This above command is not working on my scenrio..
    I’ve find out owner file inside my directory and command is
    find /mailstore/test.int/ -maxdepth 2 -not -iname “owner”

  • Kiran November 4, 2014, 5:55 am

    Can you please help on my requirement below.:
    Need to write a shell script which will connect to unix server,go to specific file under specific directory and read the fie and then save specific words as out put to text/csv file. Like Search word error and when it happened save it in text file.

    Please its bit urgent and thanks in advance

  • Srividhya December 12, 2014, 6:03 am

    Thank u so much

  • Sarbjit S, Gill April 4, 2015, 9:09 pm

    Thanks for such a great work !!

  • sufian April 14, 2016, 12:17 pm

    Please provide example by using find with -user and cp jointly like
    find / -user username -exec cp {} destination \;