Presentation onFind & Locate utility

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● Find command used to search and locate list of files and directories.

● Conditions like

permissions, users, groups, file type, date, size

● Find arguments are case sensitive.

● Find is slower in compare with locate.

● Find take deafult path as pwd.

Find & Locate utility

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Find & Locate utility

Lets go through sets of command...!!!???

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Find & Locate utility

● $ find (complete path) -name (file name)

Case sensitive

● $ find (complete path) -iname (file name)

not case sensitive

● $ find (complete path) -type f -name (file name) – for file

$ find (complete path) -type d -name (file name) – for directory

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Find & Locate utility

● $ find (complete path) -mtime -(days/minute) -mtime ---> Modified -(days) back

-atime ---> Accessed -(days) back

-cmin ---> Changed -(minute) back

-amin ---> Accessed -(minute) back

-mmin --> Modified -(minute) back

● $ find (complete path) -size (filesize)(K/M/G)

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● Locate command used to search and locate list of files.

● Locate can search for files very quickly.

● Locate does not search the file on disk rather it searches for file paths in a database.

● Database is a file that contains information about the files and their path on our system and is located at,

/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db

● Updatedb keep mlocate database updated when we excute it.

Find & Locate utility

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Find & Locate utility

Lets go through sets of command...!!!???

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Find & Locate utility

● $ locate (file name) -> case sensitive

● $ locate -0 (file name) -> output in continues format

● $ locate -c (file name) -> output is in numaric form

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Find & Locate utility

● $ locate -i (file name) -> not case sensitive

● $ locate -l (number) (file name) -> show (number) of o/p

● $ locate -e (file name) -> print file which exists in system

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Find & Locate utility

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Find & Locate utility Reference

● http://www.tecmint.com/35-practical-examples-of-linux-find-command/comment-page-7/#comment-863542

● http://www.binarytides.com/linux-find-command-examples/

● http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/03/locate-command-examples/?utm_source=feedburner

● http://alvinalexander.com/blog/post/linux-unix/use-linux-locate-command

● http://superuser.com/questions/199472/what-is-the-difference-between-locate-and-find-in-linux

● http://askubuntu.com/questions/220976/what-is-the-difference-between-find-and-locate-search-methods-in-catfish

● http://www.distrorank.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/linux.png

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Find & Locate utility Reference

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Find & Locate utility

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Find & Locate utility

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