Linux Commands for Beginners lesson 18 -- Finding Files

In this part, I demonstrate how to find files.

1.COMMAND:
      find
DESCRIPTION:
   search for files in a directory hierarchy

SYNOPSIS:
       find <path> <fileName>
OPTION:
     -mtime n   File's data was last modified n*24 hours ago.
     -name      Base of  file  name  

Example:
If you remember the file's name,you can specify a path to find it out.
root@piniheaven:~# find /root/ -name find.txt
/root/tutorial/find.txt

Even you can't remember what the exactly file name is,you still can find it out.
root@piniheaven:~# find /root/ -name fin*
/root/tutorial/find.txt


Find out files that was last modified 24 hours ago.
root@piniheaven:~# find /root/tutorial/ -mtime  -1
/root/tutorial/
/root/tutorial/.find.txt.swp
/root/tutorial/poem.txt
/root/tutorial/find.txt