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sathishkumar balachandran
sathishkumar balachandran

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FIND command

FIND :

Mainly used for search the file or document name.

Eg.,

find /u01/ -name "ERROR" --> it will search both files and folders.
find /u01/ -type f "ERROR" --> it searches only file name.
find /u01/ -type d "LOGS" _ --> it searches only directory name.
find . -name ".*" --> Important , this will search the hidden file in the current directory.
find . -size +1GB / +1M / -1M
--> last one will provide the everything which are less than 1 MB.
find /u01/ -name "ERROR*" --> it can search the wildcard also.

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Important Points :

  1. Find is case sensitive.

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