5. Search Operations in Linux

Question 1

What is the command to search for files in a directory hierarchy?

Answer 1

find

Question 2

What is an expression?

Answer 2

It is multiple positional options.

Question 3

What is the command to find a file with a specific name?

Answer 3

find -name

Question 4

What is the command to specificly find files?

Answer 4

find -type f

Question 5

What is the command to find specificly directories?

Answer 5

find -type d

Question 6

What is the command to find specificly links?

Answer 6

find -type l

Question 7

What is the command to format into a list the result of find?

Answer 7

find -ls

Question 8

What is the command to find empty files?

Answer 8

find -empty

Question 9

What is the command to find a file based on its size in octet (bytes)?

Answer 9

find -size

Question 10

What is the command to find a file based on permission?

Answer 10

find -perm

Question 11

What is the command to execute something on the file we found with the find command?

Answer 11

-exec [command] ‘{}’ \;

Question 12

What is the option to have color with the ls command?

Answer 12

–color

Question 13

How to read multiple arguments from STDOUT and send it to another STDIN?

Answer 13

xargs