Finding Files

Edition 1.1, for GNU find version 4.1

November 1994

• Introduction
  • Scope
  • Overview
  • find Expressions
• Finding Files
  • Name
    • Base Name Patterns
    • Full Name Patterns
    • Fast Full Name Search
    • Shell Pattern Matching
  • Links
    • Symbolic Links
    • Hard Links
  • Time
    • Age Ranges
    • Comparing Timestamps
  • Size
  • Type
  • Owner
  • Permissions
  • Contents
  • Directories
  • Filesystems
  • Combining Primaries With Operators
• Actions
  • Print File Name
  • Print File Information
    • Escapes
    • Format Directives
      • Name Directives
      • Ownership Directives
      • Size Directives
      • Location Directives
      • Time Directives
    • Time Formats
      • Time Components
      • Date Components
      • Combined Time Formats
  • Run Commands
    • Single File
    • Multiple Files
      • Unsafe File Name Handling
      • Safe File Name Handling
      • Limiting Command Size
      • Interspersing File Names
    • Querying
  • Adding Tests
• Common Tasks
  • Viewing And Editing
  • Archiving
  • Cleaning Up
  • Strange File Names
  • Fixing Permissions
  • Classifying Files
• File Name Databases
  • Database Locations
  • Database Formats
    • New Database Format
    • Sample Database
    • Old Database Format
• File Permissions
  • Structure of File Permissions
  • Symbolic Modes
    • Setting Permissions
    • Copying Existing Permissions
    • Changing Special Permissions
    • Conditional Executability
    • Making Multiple Changes
    • The Umask and Protection
  • Numeric Modes
• Reference
  • Invoking find
  • Invoking locate
  • Invoking updatedb
  • Invoking xargs
• find Primary Index