Commands to know: find

Question 1

params required in find

Answer 1

first is the path, second is the expression to find

Question 2

diff between -name and -iname

Answer 2

iname ignores case

Question 3

how to ignore case when using find

Answer 3

use the -iname flag

Question 4

logical operators for find

Answer 4

! Not

• a and
• o or

Question 5

!

Answer 5

not

Question 6

-a

Answer 6

and

Question 7

-o

Answer 7

or

Question 8

b in -type

Answer 8

block device file

Question 9

c in -type

Answer 9

character device file

Question 10

d in -type

Answer 10

directory

Question 11

f in -type

Answer 11

plain file

Question 12

l in -type

Answer 12

symbolic link

Question 13

p in -type

Answer 13

FIFO (named pipe)

Question 14

s in -type

Answer 14

unix domain socket

Question 15

-user

Answer 15

specifies a user that the file mist belong to. user names as well as numeric UIDs can be given

Question 16

-group

Answer 16

specifies group

Question 17

-size

Answer 17

specifies a poarticular size. Plain numbers signify a 512 byte blocks. c for bytes, k for kilobytes. can give a preceeding - or + for lower/upper bound

Question 18

-atime

Answer 18

access time, files based on the time of last access.

Question 19

-mtime

Answer 19

modification time

Question 20

-prem

Answer 20

specifies permissions files must match

Question 21

How would you search for a particualr name and list with details (ls -l) the result?

Answer 21

find . -name “whatever” -exec ls -l ‘{}’ \;