Find usage

nx_find_commands

Find all files larger than 2GB (useful for finding pesky logs that prohibit apache from starting)

    find /usr/local/apache -type f -size +2048000

Find all files owned by the user ”fred” in /home

    find /home -user fred

Find  all files with 777 permissions in /home

    find /home -perm 777

Find only directories with 777 perms

    find /home/*/public_html/ -type d -perm 777

Find only directories with 777 perms and change to 755 perms

    find public_html/ -type d -perm 777 -exec chmod 755 ‘{}’ \;

Find data owned by user nobody and change ownership to user

    find . -user nobody -exec chown usernamebob: ‘{}’ \;

Find where that pesky config file may be located with a wildcard, when you don’t know the exact name

    find public_html/ -type f -name “*conf*”

Search files for a specific string of text

    find public_html/ -type f -print0 |xargs -0 grep -si “searchabletext”

Use ‘or’ and wildcard to find specific files, and list them, ie. ls any files ending in .php or .html

    find . \( -name ‘*php’ -or -name ‘*html’ \) -type f -ls

Find php files modified within last 60 days:

    find /home/*/public_html -name ‘*.php’ -type f -mtime -60

Find file modified between 2 and 29 minutes ago. (Did someone change a file within the past half-hour)

    find public_html/ -type f -mmin +1 -mmin -30

Find hidden files or directories and how much space they are consuming. Looking for anything 1M and over

    find /home/user/mail/ -maxdepth 1 -type d -name “.*” |xargs du -shc |grep M |less