How to Find Files in Linux | Learning Terminal

In this video, I go over how to find files in Linux terminal. In this Linux Tutorial you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about the find commend and even some stuff you didn’t know you wanted to know.

Basic syntax
-find options starting/path expression
$ find ~ -name media*
Note: -name is CASE SENSITIVE for results
$ find /var/html -name *.html
$ find ~ -type d -iname Downloads
Note: -iname makes it so results are not matched based on CASE.

Advanced syntax
Find Files based on modified in the past 1 day
$ find ~ -mtime -1
Note: cull this down by using | grep partial file name
Or Find Files based on modified in the past 10 minutes
$ find ~ -mmin -10
OR find Files based on modified in the past 10 minutes and greater than 10 megs
$ find ~ -mmin -10 -size +10M

You can also add the -delete command at the end to delete ALL FILES FOUND!!! Use with extreme caution!

Bonus easily find where a program is located with “whereis”
$ whereis gimp

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21 Comments

gilkesisking

April 25, 2020

Good stuff Chris. Additional options for find…
-perm 777 ( permissons )
-empty
-maxdepth ( how far down the tree you want to look )

locate command is another good one.

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Mark G0usl

whereis DAMN! just brilliant. Never heard of that one before Very useful thanks

Gary XHLC

Thank you, even after using Linux for 10 years and trying to puzzle out man pages (which are complete, detailed, factual, and often utterly useless), I'd given up on finding via terminal (except for executables when I can use whereis ) because I never got the command parameters right — I'd either get no result, or the entire disk volume listed!

Jurgen Blick

Love your stuff

Zellonous

Helpful. Thank you.

deemon

What is the widget you use in your right bottom corner that shows core and disk usage?

Shriniwas Kulkarni

Awesome video on Linux "find" command. learned so much.
If you can, If possible can you make one video on Linux file system or file system hierarchy? and how it works?
Thanks for the video!

footb 4all

Great,you should be mentioning mlocate command

HewFreBie

GNU/Linux or Unix-like joke:
sudo whereis cat?

fourdotsYT

Also find a command with:
$ which <command>

e.g.
$ which mv
/bin/mv

David Heremans

Chris, you should have used 'media*' between quotes.
If you had a file in your current directory named fi. 'media.jpg' then bash would have replaced your medi* with media.jpg and you would be looking only for that filename.
If you had two filenames starting with media, bash would have replaced media* with those 2 names and the find command would have thrown an error.

So I guess it is time for you to make a video talking about wildcards and globbing 😉

suT3

Just wondering: why 46GB of swap?

teamvigod

Should also cover "slocate" command. Super quick, easy and secure way to index and search for files:
https://linux.die.net/man/1/slocate

Anthony Rima

Congrats on 10k followers! Another great video, I'm loving these

Theodoros Nicolaou

This is going to be so useful, thanks! Awesome video, as always.

Sebastian Dumbrava

I see u reached 10k subs. congrats 🙂

tpasi2020UG

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Always wanted to learn this. Thank you!

Solo B

You're killing it Chris!! I love these kinds of videos. However, I'd like them to be a bit more detailed for beginners like me. Also, longer tutorial from you is always awesome!
Cheers.

Lifeless web user

Can you do a video about what you think ov Richard Stallman?

stuart

Wait. So the options only use 1 dash "-"?! I thought when the options used words it was 2 dashes "–"? Ex: `ls -h` == `ls –human-readable`

Chris

Hey Chris,

From a Terminal beginners perspective i feel like you went really really fast in this video, id like to know what every bit of the command does and have time to comprehend that personally, like really overexplaining things would be helpful for it to stick in. Overall though its a wellmade video with great info, thanks 🙂