Comments on: 25+ Examples of Linux find Command – How to search for Files

By: buck

buck — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:15:31 +0000

Great summary with categorized examples
Thanks!

By: Betty Ann

Betty Ann — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 20:10:43 +0000

In reply to Yogesh Mane. Yes you are right about it

By: Foghorn Leghorn

Foghorn Leghorn — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 10:33:53 +0000

In reply to Inukaze.

Have you tried:
find . -iname ‘*(S)*’
or
find . -iname “*(S)*”
?

By: Eliot

Eliot — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 23:45:49 +0000

In reply to Maze. Try using the backslash character before the parentheses, like "\(S\)".

By: Damien Brock

Damien Brock — Tue, 12 May 2020 13:16:23 +0000

Long Path tool can resolve error messages like: path too long, cannot delete file, too long path, destination path is too long, etc.

By: Inukaze

Inukaze — Tue, 05 May 2020 16:43:19 +0000

Very good article but how i can use find to search names with (S) for example ?

Becuase i try :
find . -iname ‘(S)’
find . -iname “(S)”

but the no results

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:19:04 +0000

In reply to christof. use this command instead (find ./filename)

By: christof

christof — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:56:12 +0000

I wanna find a certain txt doc. in ROOT by using:
find / -name test.txt
Why does this command not work?

By: Toomas Hendrik

Toomas Hendrik — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 13:42:38 +0000

In reply to lax. yes, much good

By: James Wood

James Wood — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:59:43 +0000

Was after a solid search and replace technique for file names today, and uncovered this page on ‘find’. Thanks for the tips. I am sure I’ll incorporate them into day-to-day operations.

By: lax

lax — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:32:00 +0000

In reply to Emre. very good one

By: regsPloge

regsPloge — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:03:42 +0000

Hi everyone. I am Kreg i am from Philipines. Thanks for approved.

By: Emre

Emre — Mon, 28 May 2018 17:19:14 +0000

Good article

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:44:14 +0000

Thanks for the article. It’s really useful. I am wondering how can I use the find command and exclude the files that are using by some processes? I can find if files are used by process by:
find path_to_files -type f -name “some_name” -exec fuser {} \;
The output will show if there are files used by any processes but how can I get output that will show only files that are currently not used by any process?

By: Aung Myat

Aung Myat — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 03:03:24 +0000

It would become more perfect if “Delete all files which are older than X time” in the last. This is a good article. Thanks for sharing.

By: Greg Faucher

Greg Faucher — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 02:42:29 +0000

yikes!!

By: Betty Ann

Betty Ann — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:18:01 +0000

Your article is very informative. it’s really helpful……

By: Will Stites

Will Stites — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:01:33 +0000

You use the word “criterias”. That’s a mistake. Criteria is already plural. The singular is criterion. Thanks for providing the info here.

By: Erick

Erick — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:30:50 +0000

Excelente presentacion. buenos ejemplos y muy practicos.
Saludos.

By: PeterM

PeterM — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 21:25:10 +0000

That was really helpful. Concise and clear article, thank you!