1. Find Files by Name

find /home/user/documents -name "example.txt"

2. Find Files by Extension

find /var/log -name "*.log"

3. Find Files modified in the last 7 days

find /etc -mtime -7

4. find files modified more than 30 days ago

find /usr/local -mtime +30

5. Find and delete files

find /tmp -name "oldfile.txt" -delete

6. Find empty files or directories

find /var/www/ -empty

7. Find files larger than 100MB

find /home/user/downloads -size +100MB

8. Find files owned by a specific user

find /home -user username

9. Find files with 0644 permissions

find /etc/-perm 0644

10. Find files and execute a command (gzip log files)

find /var/log -name "*.log" -exec gzip {} \;

11. Find files and execute a command (delete empty files)

find /home/user/documents -type f -empty -exec rm {} \;

12. Find files and print their details

find /home/user/documents -type f -exec is -lh {} \;

13. Find files excluding a specific directory

find / -path "/proc" -prune -o -name "*.conf"

14. Find files modified in the last 60 minutes

find /var/www -mmin -60

15. find and archive files with a specific extension

-czvf archive.tar.gz

find /usr/bin -type l

17. Find files by lnode number

find / -inum 456332

18. Find files and exclude a specific file type

find /home/user -not -name "*.txt"

19. Find files with specific group ownership

find /var/log -group syslog

20. Find files with specific size range (e.g., 500MB to 100MB)

find /home/user/downloads -size +50M -size +100MB

21. Find and sort files by modification time

find /var/log -type f exec ls -lt {} +

22. Find files modified in the last 2 hours

find /var/log -mmin -120

23. Find files with specific user and group ownership

find /home -user username -group groupname

24. Find fils with specific file permissions (readable by owner only)

find /var/log -perm 600

25. Find files larger than 1GB and Delete Them

find /var/log -size +1G -exec rm -f {} \;

26. Find files and limit depth of search to 1 level

find /home/user -maxdepth 1 -name "*.txt"

27. Find files accessed more than 90 days ago

find /var/log -atime +90

28. Find hidden files

find /home/user -name ".*"

29. Find files created more than 1 day ago

find /home/user -ctime +1

30. Find files by their type (e.g., Block Devices)

find /dev/ -type b

31. Find files with specific permission and exclude others

find / -perm /a=r -not -perm /a=w

32. Find files containing a specific string in the name

find /home/user -name "*config*"

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