searchfind.md

Search & Find

Find a file by name

[find](/man/find) / -iname "[query]" [fd](/man/fd) [query] [fzf](/man/fzf)

Find all path names containing a phrase

[locate](/man/locate) [query] [plocate](/man/plocate) [query]

Find the path of an executable

[which](/man/which) [command]

Find location of binary/source/man files for a command

[whereis](/man/whereis) [command]

Search for pattern in output of command

[history](/man/history) | [grep](/man/grep) [phrase]

Find files whose content was modified less than 60 minutes ago

[find](/man/find) / -mmin -60

Find files whose status was changed less than 60 minutes ago

[find](/man/find) / -cmin -60

Find all files accessed 7 days ago

[find](/man/find) / -atime 7

Search for pattern in file

[grep](/man/grep) [query] [file] [rg](/man/rg) [query] [file] [ag](/man/ag) [query] [file]

Find files between 10MB and 100MB

[find](/man/find) / -size +10M -size -100M

Find files by extension

[fd](/man/fd) -e [extension] [find](/man/find) . -type f -name "*.[extension]" [locate](/man/locate) "*.[extension]"

Search recursively in files

[grep](/man/grep) -r [query] [path] [rg](/man/rg) [query] [path] [ag](/man/ag) [query] [path]

Find empty files and directories

[find](/man/find) / -type f -empty [find](/man/find) / -type d -empty