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The <code>'''find'''</code> program is a [[directory (file systems)|directory]] [[search utility]], mostly found on [[DOS]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] and [[Unix-like]] platforms. It searches through one or more directory [[tree (computing)|trees]] of a [[filesystem]], locating [[Computer file|file]]s based on some user-specified criteria. By default, <code>find</code> returns all files below the current [[working directory]]. Further, <code>find</code> allows the user to specify an action to be taken on each matched file. Thus, it is an extremely powerful program for applying actions to many files. It also supports [[Regular expressi(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 all files owned by a user===

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 find . -user <userid>

==See also==
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* *[[GNU_locate|locate]], a Unix search tool based on a prebuilt database therefore faster than find⏎
*[[List of Unix programs]]
*[[List of DOS commands]]

==External links==
*  [http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/ GNU Findutils] - Comes with the [[xargs]] and [[GNU locate|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]
*  [http://www.enciclopedia.galeon.com/find.html Exercises "Find"]

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