In this post i am going to share few of the oracle Linux commands .. i have posted total 4 post for Complete Linux high level commands .
part 1 : https://anjaniappsdba.blogspot.com/2023/09/oracle-linux-commands-part-14.html
this is part 2 .. in my next post will share part 3 commands
In Linux Searching Commands
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locate filename>> to search entire file system for given file name
find / -name filename>> to search entire / file system for given file
name
find . –name filename>> it searches the file in current directory
find . –iname filename>> it searches the file in current directory with
ignore the case sensitive
find / -type f –name filename>> it searches the file in the file system of /
find / -type d –name dirname >> it searches the directory in the file
system of /
find / -type f –name filename –exec rm –rf {}\; >>to find the file and
remove that file
find / -type f –empty >> it display the empty file
find / -type d –empty >> it display the empty directories
find / -mtime 50 >> to be find the last 50 days modified files
find / -mtime +50 –mtime -100 >> to be find the last 50 days to 100days
modified files.
find / -mmin -60>> it displayes the last one hour modified file
find / -cmin -60>> it displayes the last one hour changed file
find / -atime 50>> it displayes the last 50 days accessed file
find / -size 50M >> it displayes the 50 mb files.
find / -size +50M –size -100M >> it displayes the 50 mb to 100mb files.
Find / -size +100M –exec rm –rf {} \; >> it finds the 100 mb files and
delete the files
Find the largest file in the current & sub
directories
find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -1
Find the smallest file in the current directory and sub
directories
find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | tail -1
or
find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n | head -1
Find the files which are created between two files
find . -cnewer f1 -and ! -cnewer f2
Find the permissions of the files which contain the name
"java"?
find -name "*java*"|xargs ls -l
Alternate method is
find -name "*java*" -exec ls -l {} \;
Find the files which have the name "java" in it and then display
only the files which have "class" word in them?
find -name "*java*" -exec grep -H class {} \;
Remove files which contain the name "java".
find -name "*java*" -exec rm -r {} \;
Find & Copy Commands :
find . -type f -name "*.mp3" -exec cp {} /tmp/MusicFiles \;
# cp *.mp3 files to /tmp/MusicFiles
How to Copy one file to Many directories
find dir1 dir2 dir3 dir4 -type d -exec cp header.shtml {} \;
# copy the file header.shtml to those dirs
Find and Delete Files in the Linux Command Line
find . -name "*.bak" -delete
Find files with different file extensions
find . -type f \( -name "*.c" -o -name "*.sh" \)
find . -iname foo
If you're just interested in directories, search like this:
find . -iname foo -type d
And if you're just looking for files, search like this:
find . -iname foo -type f
Thanks,
Srini
