Searching for Files
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Search through all files by name, file size, time created, time accesses etc | find
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| find Options: Find all plain text files in /user/home directory | find /user/home -name ‘.txt’
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| find Options: files owned by a specified user | -user
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| find Options: find files modified before or after a specified number of days | find /user/home –mtime -5
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| find Options: Specifies whether files or directories [fd] | find / -type d ‘*paper*’
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| find Options: Specifies how many levels down to search | find –maxdepth 3 –name ‘*.txt’
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| find Options: Find specified files, including filenames with spaces | -print0
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| find Options: Specifies the or parameter when searching multiple criteria | -o
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| find Options: Specifies when file was last accessed | -atime
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| Searches an index file for specific parameters (is faster than find) | locate
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| Index file for locate | /var/log/locatedb
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| Command to update the index /var/log/locatedb | updatedb
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| Configuration file for updatadb | /etc/updatedb.conf
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| locate Options: Count number of entries rather than list | locate -c
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| locate Options: List files only after verifying that they exist | locate -e
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| locate Options: Ignore case | locate -i
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| locate Options: Limit the number of files listed | locate -l
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| locate Options: Searches for a string in only file or directory base names | locate -b
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| Display path to a command | which
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| Displays the path to the binary file, the manual pages, and the source code | whereis
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| whereis Options: List path to the binary file (similar to which) | whereis -b
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| whereis Options: Lists path to the man pages | whereis -m
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| whereis Options:List location of source code | whereis -s
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| whereis Options: List entries that do not have source code, binary file, and man page locations | -u
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| whereis no options | Shows all available options
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| find Options: Find files by size - c for bytes – k for kilobytes – M for magabytes | find /user/home –size +300K
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