Search related commands

Search commands will help you to search files/directories and file content.

Command GREP

            Grand regular expression, it is used to search the file name and content of the file

 Command FIND

            It is command to find files with different options.

# find / -iname <file name>           - to search files with file name

# find / -perm 770                            - to search files with their permissions

# find / -user <user name>            - to search files with user ownership

# find / -size 10M                             - to search files with their size

find Command Output

Command LOCATE

            Locate command can be used to searching for the file based on the string name from / onwards.

locate Command Output