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{{See Wiktionary|a computer utility}}
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The <code>'''find'''</code> program is a [[search utility]], mostly found on [[Unix-like]] platforms. It searches through one or more [[directory (file systems)|directory]] [[tree (computing)|tree(s)]] of a [[filesystem]], locating [[Computer file|file]]s based on some user-specified criteria. By default, <code>find</code> returns all files b(contracted; show full)

Example of search for the string "ERROR" in all xml files in the current directory and all sub-directories
 find . -name "*.xml" -exec grep "ERROR" '{}' \; -print

The double quotes (" ") surrounding the search string and single quotes (<nowiki>' '</nowiki>) surrounding the braces are optional in this example, but needed to allow spaces and other special characters in the string.

===Search for a files 
creatowned by a user===
find . -user <userid>

==See also==

* [[searchmonkey]], an alternative search tool using the [[Gtk]] front-end

==External links==
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/ GNU Findutils] - Comes with the [[xargs]] and [[locate]] commands.
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_mono/find.html Official webpage for GNU find]
* [http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man1/find.1.php Linux find(1)] [[manpage]]
* [http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?find Unix man page]

{{unix commands}}

[[Category:Unix software]]
[[Category:Searching]]

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