Another way of searching for files is using the command “find”. In this howto you’ll see different ways of using find. I will point out the most typical situations. Looking for:
The biggest files modified the last 24h. Typical when a partition is growing significantly and you want to know who is to blame
find ./ -mtime -1 -ls | sort -k7rn | more
Files ended with an special extension. For instance log files ending with .log
find ./ -name “*.log” -ls | more
or mp3 files
find ./ -name “*.mp3″ -ls | more
Files by name
find ./ -iname nameofthefile | more (with iname we are searching case insensitive)
With the use of pipes you can do a lot more. Imagination is welcome!!
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