Finding Files

Edition 4.1.5, for GNU find version 4.1.5

11 April 2000

• 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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