Finding Files
Edition 1.1, for GNU
find
version 4.1
November 1994
by David MacKenzie
1. Introduction
1.1 Scope
1.2 Overview
1.3
find
Expressions
2. Finding Files
2.1 Name
2.1.1 Base Name Patterns
2.1.2 Full Name Patterns
2.1.3 Fast Full Name Search
2.1.4 Shell Pattern Matching
2.2 Links
2.2.1 Symbolic Links
2.2.2 Hard Links
2.3 Time
2.3.1 Age Ranges
2.3.2 Comparing Timestamps
2.4 Size
2.5 Type
2.6 Owner
2.7 Permissions
2.8 Contents
2.9 Directories
2.10 Filesystems
2.11 Combining Primaries With Operators
3. Actions
3.1 Print File Name
3.2 Print File Information
3.2.1 Escapes
3.2.2 Format Directives
3.2.2.1 Name Directives
3.2.2.2 Ownership Directives
3.2.2.3 Size Directives
3.2.2.4 Location Directives
3.2.2.5 Time Directives
3.2.3 Time Formats
3.2.3.1 Time Components
3.2.3.2 Date Components
3.2.3.3 Combined Time Formats
3.3 Run Commands
3.3.1 Single File
3.3.2 Multiple Files
3.3.2.1 Unsafe File Name Handling
3.3.2.2 Safe File Name Handling
3.3.2.3 Limiting Command Size
3.3.2.4 Interspersing File Names
3.3.3 Querying
3.4 Adding Tests
4. Common Tasks
4.1 Viewing And Editing
4.2 Archiving
4.3 Cleaning Up
4.4 Strange File Names
4.5 Fixing Permissions
4.6 Classifying Files
5. File Name Databases
5.1 Database Locations
5.2 Database Formats
5.2.1 New Database Format
5.2.2 Sample Database
5.2.3 Old Database Format
6. File Permissions
6.1 Structure of File Permissions
6.2 Symbolic Modes
6.2.1 Setting Permissions
6.2.2 Copying Existing Permissions
6.2.3 Changing Special Permissions
6.2.4 Conditional Executability
6.2.5 Making Multiple Changes
6.2.6 The Umask and Protection
6.3 Numeric Modes
7. Reference
7.1 Invoking
find
7.2 Invoking
locate
7.3 Invoking
updatedb
7.4 Invoking
xargs
find
Primary Index
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