Find Command and its attribute in Linux .

Finding a File inside a collection of files made tough . sometimes you may forgotten the filename , but you remember that you have accessed or modified by last 7 days . You can also find files that you have edited before or after accessed or modifed file .

1 ) To list the files in current Directory .

      find . -print

This will print all the files in the current directory (mentioned by . )

2 )Find command is a powerful command line tool and its armed with a variety of interesting options -name argument specifies a matching string for the filename .

	#The find command is a powerfull command line tool and its aimed with a variety of interesting options .
	find /home/lazyswapper -name "*.txt" -print
	# To Ignore cases
	find /home/lazyswapper -iname "*.txt" -print

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3 ) If we want to match either of the multiple criteria , we can use OR option (-o)

	find . \( -name "*.txt" -o -name "*.pdf" \) -print
	# HERE , the above command will match either the file ends with txt or pdf

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4 )  The -path argument can be used to match the wildcards.

find /home/users -path "/*lazy*/" -print

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5 )To find all files other than some files .

find . ! -name "*.txt" -print

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6 ) while finding some files , it will list all of the files that are available in the current directory and all of its sub directory . so we can control it by using maxdepth and mindepth.

	find . -maxdepth 2 -name "*.txt"
	find . -mindepth 2 -name "*.pdf"

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7) Finding files using their types either directory  , files , links 

	# to find all files that are been accessed older than 7 days
	find . -atime +7
	# to find all files that are been accessed lesser that 7 days
	find . -atime -7
	# to find all files that are been accessed exactly 7 days
	find . -atime 7

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8 ) Finding files using their size .
for more details and working see this video