Find Files in Linux

find -name 'mypage.htm'

In the above command the system would search for any file named mypage.htm in the current directory and any subdirectory.

find / -name 'mypage.htm'

In the above example the system would search for any file named mypage.htm on the root and all subdirectories from the root.

find -name 'file*'

In the above example the system would search for any file beginning with file in the current directory and any subdirectory.

find -name '*' -size +1000k

In the above example the system would search for any file that is larger then 1000k.

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( expression )
True if expression is true.
! expression
Negation of a primary; the unary NOT operator.
expression [-a] expression
Conjunction of primaries; the AND operator is implied by the juxtaposition of two primaries or made explicit by the optional -a operator. The second expression shall not be evaluated if the first expression is false.
expression -o expression
Alternation of primaries; the OR operator. The second expression shall not be evaluated if the first expression is true.

find \( -name 'hello*' -a -name '*.sh' \)
find \( -name '*.sh' -o -name '*.txt' \)

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對找到檔案做處理: -exec

有時我們會把找到的特定檔做特別的處理 ,像是刪除和移動就可以用 exec來處理
請看範例。請注意指令的後面要加 \; 來做結束

而此範例是把找到的檔案cp 到user的家目錄下的txt目錄裡面,在這裡的重點是 {}就是找到檔案的代號, 而exec 後面就是要操作的命令
find /tmp/ -type f -name "*.txt" -exec cp {} ~/txt \;