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The <code>'''find'''</code> program is a [[directory (file systems)|directory]] [[Search engine (computing)|search utility]] on [[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, <c(contracted; show full)
 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===
 find . -user <userid>


===Search in case insensitive mode===
 find . -iname <filename> -type f -print

===Search files by size===
Example of searching files with size between 100 kilobytes and 500 kilobytes.
 find . -size +100k -a -size -500k

The units should be one of [bckw], 'b' means 512-byte blocks, 'c' means byte, 'k' means kilobytes and 'w' means 2-byte words. The size does not count indirect blocks, but it does count blocks in sparse files that are not actually allocated. ⏎
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==See also==
*[[GNU locate]], a Unix search tool based on a prebuilt database therefore faster and less accurate than find
*[[mdfind]], a similar utility that utilizes metadata for [[Mac OS X]] and [[Darwin (operating system)|Darwin]]
*[[List of Unix programs]]
*[[List of DOS commands]]
*[[find (command)]], a DOS and Windows command that is very different from UNIX find

==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.softpanorama.org/Tools/Find/find_mini_tutorial.shtml Softpanorama find tutorial]
*{{man|1|find||search for files in a directory hierarchy}}
*[http://www.enciclopedia.galeon.com/find.html Exercises "Find"]
*[http://find.unixpin.com/ "Find helper" - unix "find" wizard]
*[http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/calish-find.html Guide to Linux Find Command Mastery]
*[http://www.shell-fu.org/lister.php?tag=find Top 'find' commands - interesting usage]

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