How to search with find.

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The find command is one of the useful and powerful command in Linux.
Following are some useful commands to search the data using find.

find -name "*.jpg"

Above command searches the current directory and all subdirectories for files that end in .jpg

find /home -name "*.jpg"

Serach the filename with .jpg extension under /home

find /home -name "*.jpg" -size 100k

Search the filename with .jpg extension having size less than 100k

find /home -name "*.jpg" -size +100k

Search the filename with .jpg extension having size greater than 100k

find /home -name "*.jpg" -size +100k -user Alan

Search the filename with .jpg extension having size greater than 100k and owned by Alan

You can use -perm to specify which permissions a file should have for it to be matched

find /home -perm -o=rw
Search the filename for other which has permission set read/write

find /home -perm 777
Search the filename which has permission set read/write/execute

Enjoy