Find is a wonderful command that is used in day to day. Some useful commands on find are as follows:

- To search the system for files that were modified within the last three days:

root@server# find / -mtime -3 -print

- List all files named core in the directory /test

root@server# find /test -name core

- To search the current directory and subdirectories for files beginning with name “conf” and prints the path:

root@server# find . -type f -name ‘conf*’ -print

To search in the current directory and all sub directories all files that contain the string “test” and will have their path printed to standard output.

root@server# find . -exec grep -q “test” ‘{}’ \; -print

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