Monday, July 7, 2014

find: Make UNIX easy



Description Command
find a file in a directory find <directory> -name “<file/dir name>”
case insensitive find -i (eg: find . -iname '<file/dir name>'


find for regular file types find . -name '<name>' -type f
find for directories types find . -name '<name>' -type d
find for symbolic links find . -name '<name>' -type l


find all empty files in a directory find . -empty


execute another command on the find results:
Syntax: <find command> -exec <other command> {} \;

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