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FIND(1) General Commands Manual FIND(1) NAME find - find files SYNOPSIS find pathname ... expression DESCRIPTION Find recursively descends the directory hierarchy for each pathname, seeking files that match a boolean expression, which consists of one or more arguments. It does not follow symbolic links. In the following descriptions of primary expressions, n is a decimal integer; +n may be written to specify more than n and -n to specify less. -name filename True if the filename argument matches the current file name. Normal shell filename metacharacters may be used if quoted. -perm onum True if the file permission flags exactly match the octal number onum (see chmod(1)). If onum is prefixed by a minus sign, more mode bits (017777, see stat(2)) become significant and the modes are compared: (mode&onum)==onum. -type c True if the type of the file is c, where c is b, c, d, f, or L for block special file, character special file, directory, plain file or symbolic link. -links n True if the file has n links. -user uname True if the file belongs to the user uname (login name or nu- meric userid). -group gname True if the file belongs to group gname (group name or nu- meric groupid). -size n True if the file is n blocks long (512 bytes per block). -inum n True if the file has inode number n. -atime n True if the file has been accessed in n days. -mtime n True if the file has been modified in n days. -ctime n True if the inode has been changed in n days. -exec command True if the executed command returns a zero value as exit status. The end of the command must be punctuated by an es- caped semicolon. A command argument is replaced by the cur- rent pathname. -ok command Like -exec except that the generated command is written on the standard output, then the standard input is read and the command executed only upon response y. -print Always true; causes the current pathname to be printed. -newer file True if the file has been modified more recently than the ar- gument file. -status n True if lstat (see stat(2)) applied to the file yields error number n; see intro(2). Testing turns off diagnostics that errors normally produce. On ordinary systems a nonzero error number occurs when a file disappears underfoot or a file sys- tem is in trouble. The following operators, listed in order of decreasing precedence, may be used to combine primary expressions. ( expression ) Group with parentheses. ! expression Negation. True if and only if expression is not true. expression expression Conjunction. True if both expressions are true. expression -o expression Disjunction. True if either expression is true. EXAMPLES find / \( -name a.out -o -name '*.o' \) -atime +7 -exec rm '{}' \; Remove all files named or that have not been accessed for a week. FILES SEE ALSO sh(1), test(1), filsys(5) FIND(1)