𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐭

  • Usage:
find <path> <conditions> <actions>
  • Access time conditions:
-atime 0           # Last accessed between now and 24 hours ago
-atime +0          # Accessed more than 24 hours ago
-atime 1           # Accessed between 24 and 48 hours ago
-atime +1          # Accessed more than 48 hours ago
-atime -1          # Accessed less than 24 hours ago (same a 0)
-ctime -6h30m      # File status changed within the last 6 hours and 30 minutes
-mtime +1w         # Last modified more than 1 week ago
  • Conditions:
-name "*.c"

-user jonathan
-nouser

-type f            # File
-type d            # Directory
-type l            # Symlink

-depth 2           # At least 3 levels deep
-regex PATTERN

-size 8            # Exactly 8 512-bit blocks 
-size -128c        # Smaller than 128 bytes
-size 1440k        # Exactly 1440KiB
-size +10M         # Larger than 10MiB
-size +2G          # Larger than 2GiB

-newer   file.txt
-newerm  file.txt        # modified newer than file.txt
-newerX  file.txt        # [c]hange, [m]odified, [B]create
-newerXt "1 hour ago"    # [t]imestamp
  • Example:
  • find a file where:
    • owned by user bandit7
    • owned by group bandit6
    • 33 bytes in size
find / -user bandit7 -group bandit6 -size 33c

Tags: Linux, Find command, Find, find By user, find By date, find Newest, find newer,

License: MIT License