Find Files and Directories in CentOS
Find Files and Directories in CentOS
The find command helps you locate files and folders on your hard disk. There are additional parameters that can be passed to the command that help you find files and folders in multiple ways. Find by filename, modified time, find files and folders.
Basic syntax
find /path/to/search -option1 -option2
Find a file by name
Search your entire system from the root folder “/” for a file named “filename.sh”, which is presumably a shell script.
find / -name filename.sh
Find empty files
Lets find empty files in /tmp/
find/tmp -typef -empty
Find empty directories/folders
Lets find empty directories in /tmp/
find/tmp -typed -empty
Find files not modified for a set duration
Files under /var/log that haven’t been written to or otherwise modified in a week or more.
find/var/log -mtime +7
Find files to delete
Now lets find files under /var/log which have not been modified for a week and delete them.
find/var/log -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;