Comments on: 35 Practical Examples of Linux Find Command

By: Philippe Moisan

Philippe Moisan — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 21:50:04 +0000

Excellent comment, thanks!

By: Karol

Karol — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:23:00 +0000

Countless examples that are EXACTLY THE SAME so this list of 35 could be condensed to a few examples. Then it’s missing in my opinion crucial searching based on patterns.

Most of the examples show super arbitrary parameters on which to search files and each command is repeated a few times with minor differences like -perm 1664, -perm 7777 – I GET IT that.

I can search on different permissions. Very little general knowledge can be inferred from these examples.

By: sedlav

sedlav — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:35:41 +0000

Please stop confusing people find is not a Linux command else a GNU command, Linux is a Kernel, not the project that embraces find.

By: Dlight Daily

Dlight Daily — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:24:23 +0000

I want to find the default notification email address for my centreon NMS. I don’t know in which file it was configured.

How can I find root@localhost.localdomain to change the email id, because my email server blocks it?

By: Kapil

Kapil — Fri, 28 May 2021 16:02:21 +0000

Very useful page - find otherwise is a huge topic in itself: this page helps you to get on with find quickly. Just one request. Kindly also add examples illustrating the use of "-maxdepth" option to limit find to the desired number of directories.