Find Summary

This chapter contained many examples of common find operations. There are many addtional find operators that were not covered. The following is a summary of some of the more commonly used operators of find. There is also a manual page in Appendix A describing find in more detail. Depending on the UNIX variant you are using, the -print option may or may not be needed.

find - Search for files.

Commonly used operators or options:
 -atime n
  Find files that were accessed n days ago. +n finds files accessed greater than n days ago and -n will find files accessed less than n days ago.
 -ctime n
  Find files in which the inode was modified ...

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