How To Search a File In Linux /Unix or Use Of FIND Unix Command

How To Search a File In Linux /Unix

In Linux For Searching a file use Find Command.

Find command is used to find the files or directory’s path, it is exactly like the find option in Windows where you can search for a file.

Syntax: find / (under root) –Option filename

Options that can be used with find command:

Options	Usage
-name	For searching a file with its name
-inum	For searching a file with particular inode number
-type	For searching a particular type of file
-user	For files whose owner is a particular user
-group	For files belonging to particular group

Finding a file with name:

# find / -name File1

[root@rahul Desktop]# find / -name file4 /root/Desktop/file4

Finding a file with its inode number:

#find / -inum 5934

[root@rahul Desktop]# ls -li file4 9517 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 66 Sep 21 20:16 file4 [root@rahul Desktop]# find / -inum 9517 /root/Desktop/file4

Finding the Files, Whose owner of the files:

#find / -user rahul

[root@rahul Desktop]# find / -user user find: `/proc/2196/task/2196/fd/5': No such file or directory find: `/proc/2196/task/2196/fdinfo/5': No such file or directory find: `/proc/2196/fd/5': No such file or directory find: `/proc/2196/fdinfo/5': No such file or directory /var/spool/mail/user /home/user /home/user/.bash_profile /home/user/.bashrc /home/user/.mozilla /home/user/.mozilla/extensions /home/user/.mozilla/plugins /home/user/.bash_logout /home/user/.gnome2

Finding the files whose group is “rpgroup”

#find / -group rpgroup

[root@rahul Desktop]# find / -group rpgroup /home/user /home/user/.bash_profile /home/user/.bashrc /home/user/.mozilla /home/user/.mozilla/extensions /home/user/file1 /home/user/file2 /home/user/file4