find

Question 1

find

Answer 1

GNU find searches the directory tree rooted at each given starting-point by evaluating the given expression from left to right, according to the rules of precedence until the outcome is known, at which point find moves on to the next file name.

Question 2

find [OPTIONS]

• P
• L
• H
• D
• 0

Answer 2

• P, Never follow symbolic links.
• L, Follow symbolic links.
• H, Do not follow symbolic links, except while processing the command line arguments.
• D debugopts, Print diagnostic information.
• 0level, Enables query optimisation.

Question 3

find . -name text1

Answer 3

Finds files with the name text 1 in the current directory.

Question 4

find /home -name text1

Answer 4

Finds files with the name text1 in the /home directory.

Question 5

find /home -iname text1

Answer 5

Ignores the case of text1 while trying to find matching files in /home.

Question 6

find / -type d -name text1

Answer 6

Searches for directories from / named text1

Question 7

find . -type f -name text.php

Answer 7

Looks for files named text.php in current directory.

Question 8

find . -type f -name “*.php”

Answer 8

Finds all php files in current directory.

Question 9

find / -type f -perm 0777 -print

Answer 9

Find all the files whose permissions are 777.

Question 10

find / -type f ! -perm 777

Answer 10

Find all the files without permission 777.

Question 11

find / -perm 2644

Answer 11

Find all the SGID bit files whose permissions set to 644.

Question 12

find / -perm 1551

Answer 12

Find all the Sticky Bit set files whose permission are 551.

Question 13

find / -perm /u=s

Answer 13

Find all SUID set files.

Question 14

find / -perm /g=s

Answer 14

Find all SGID set files.

Question 15

find / -perm /u=r

Answer 15

Find all Read Only files.

Question 16

find / -perm /a=x

Answer 16

Find all Executable files

Question 17

find / -type f -perm 0777 -print -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Answer 17

Find all 777 permission files and use chmod command to set permissions to 644.

Question 18

find / -type d -perm 777 -print -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Answer 18

Find all 777 permission directories and use chmod command to set permissions to 755

Question 19

find . -type f -name “tecmint.txt” -exec rm -f {} \;

Answer 19

To find a single file called tecmint.txt and remove it.

Question 20

find . -type f -name “*.txt” -exec rm -f {} \;

OR

find . -type f -name “*.mp3” -exec rm -f {} \;

Answer 20

To find and remove multiple files such as .mp3 or .txt.

Question 21

find /tmp -type f -empty

Answer 21

To find all empty files under certain path.

Question 22

find /tmp -type d -empty

Answer 22

To file all empty directories under certain path.

Question 23

find /tmp -type f -name “.*”

Answer 23

To find all hidden files, use below command.

Question 24

find / -user root -name tecmint.txt

Answer 24

To find all or single file called tecmint.txt under / root directory of owner root.

Question 25

find /home -user tecmint

Answer 25

To find all files that belongs to user Tecmint under /home directory.

Question 26

find /home -group developer

Answer 26

To find all files that belongs to group Developer under /home directory.

Question 27

find /home -user tecmint -iname “*.txt”

Answer 27

To find all .txt files of user Tecmint under /home directory.