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Unix – find files and directories using the find and grep commands

Find Files containing solr

# python files, text files and java files
grep --color --include="*[py|txt|java]" -rHnE "^import [a-z,\s]+$" *

# same as above with extended
find . -regextype posix-extended -iregex ".*.py|.*.txt|.*.txt" -exec grep  --color -rHnE "import|except" '{}' \; -print
#find . -name "*.py" -exec grep  --color -rHnE "import|except" '{}' \; -print

Find Files containing solr

#geek nr. 1 - find "solr" in "*.py" files
find . -name "*.py"  -exec grep --color -Hn "import os" '{}' \;

#geek nr. 2 - find "solr" in "*.py" files - same result as above
find . -name "*.py" | xargs grep --color -Hn "import os"

#same as
grep --include="*.py" -rHnE "import os" *

Find Files containing solr


find . -type f -print0|xargs -0  grep "solr"

grep -le "solr"

-print0 quotes and handles spaces, double quotes etc
-type f = only find files – no directories

finding multipe file extensions


find . -regextype posix-extended -iregex ".*.txt|.*.mp4"

FIND Files Excluding Some with ERROR redirect


find . -name "*" |egrep -v "spool|maillog|\.log|\/apps\/temp|\/work\/|bounce_tbl.sql|pdf$|gz$"| xargs egrep "8\.73|\.53|jdbc.url"  1> tmp/dbconnections.txt 2>tmp/dbconnections.txt

find . -name "*" -exec egrep "8\.73|\.53|jdbc.url" '{}' \; -print 1> ./tmp/dbconnections2.txt 2>./tmp/dbconnections2.txt

find . -name "*" -exec egrep "connections" '{}' \; -print 1> ~/tmp/dbconnections3.txt 2>~/tmp/dbconnections3.txt&

Recursive set CHMOD

find . -name "*.sh" -exec chmod -v u+x  '{}' \;

Search And Replace In Files in Shell

for filename in `find . -name "*.conf"`; do  sed 's/\/home\//\/data\//g' $filename > $filename.new ;   mv $filename $filename.old && mv $filename.new $filename;   echo $filename; done

for filename in `find . -name "sphinx.334*-mod-*.conf"`; do  sed 's/\/home\//\/data\//g' $filename > $filename.new ;   mv $filename $filename.old && mv $filename.new $filename;   echo $filename; done

Finding Java Files with the keyword


find . -iname '*.java' | xargs grep 'upload' -sl

More find tips…

All TXT Files(case insensitive) containing “paris hilton” (case insensitive)
find . -iname "*.Txt" -exec grep -qi "paris hilton" '{}' \; -print
All Files containing “paris hilton”
find . -exec grep -q "paris hilton" '{}' \; -print
All Files and Inserts containing “paris hilton”
find . -exec grep "paris hilton" '{}' \; -print
In XML Files:
find . -name "*.xml" -exec grep "Genre name=" '{}' \; -print > /tmp/genre2.txt

cd /home/user/000/000/000/000/
find . -name "*.xml" -exec grep "Upgrade U" '{}' \; -print

find . -name "*.xml" -exec grep "Outside" '{}' \; -print

find . -name "*" -exec grep "657516" '{}' \; -print

Find “upload” in BZ Files


find . -iname '*.bz2' | xargs bzgrep 'upload' -sl

> man find
FIND(1)                                                                   FIND(1)

NAME
       find - search for files in a directory hierarchy

SYNOPSIS
       find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-D debugopts] [-Olevel] [path...] [expression]

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual  page documents the GNU version of find.  GNU find searches the directory tree rooted at
       each given file name by evaluating the given expression from left to right, according to the rules of
       precedence (see section  OPERATORS),  until the outcome is known (the left hand side is false for and
       operations, true for or), at which point find moves on to the next file name.

       If you are using find in an environment where security is important (for example if you are using it
       to search directories that are writable by other users), you should read the "Security Considerations"
       chapter of the findutils documentation, which is called Finding Files and comes with findutils. That
       document also includes a lot  more  detail and discussion than this manual page, so you may find it a
       more useful source of information.

OPTIONS
       The  -H, -L and -P options control the treatment of symbolic links.  Command-line arguments following
       these are taken to be names of files or directories to be examined, up to the first argument that
       begins with `-',  or  the  argument `('  or  `!'.   That  argument  and  any  following arguments are
       taken to be the expression describing what is to be searched for.  If no paths are given, the current
       directory is used.  If  no  expression  is  given,  the  expression -print is used (but you should
       probably consider using -print0 instead, anyway).

       This  manual  page talks  about  `options'  within  the  expression  list.  These options control the
       behaviour of find but are specified immediately after the last path name. The five `real' options -H,
       -L, -P, -D and -O must appear before the  first  path  name,  if at all. A double dash -- can also be
       used to signal that any remaining arguments are not options (though ensuring that all start points
       begin with either `./' or `/' is generally safer if you use  wildcards
       in the list of start points).
       -P     Never follow symbolic links.  This is the default behaviour.  When find examines or prints
              information a file, and the file is a symbolic link, the information used shall be taken from
              the properties of the symbolic  link itself.

       -L     Follow  symbolic  links. When find examines or prints information about files, the information
              used shall be taken from the properties of the file to which the link points, not from the link
              itself (unless it is a  broken symbolic link or find is unable to examine the file to which the
              link points). Use of this option implies -noleaf. If you later use the -P option, -noleaf will
              still be in effect.  If -L is in effect and  find  discovers a symbolic link to a subdirectory
              during its search, the subdirectory pointed to by the symbolic link will be searched.

              When the -L option is in effect, the -type predicate will always match against the type of the
              file  that a symbolic link points to rather than the link itself (unless the symbolic link is
              broken).  Using -L causes the -lname and -ilname predicates always to return false.

       -H     Do not follow symbolic links, except while processing the command  line  arguments. When  find
              examines or pints  information  about files, the information used shall be  taken from the
              properties of the symbolic link itself. The only exception to this behaviour is when a file
              specified on the  command  line  is  a  symbolic link,  and the link can be resolved. For that
              situation, the information used is taken from whatever the link points to (that is, the link
              is followed).  The information about the link itself is used as a fallback if the file pointed
              to by the symbolic link cannot be examined.  If -H is in effect and one of the paths specified
              on the command line is a symbolic link to a directory, the contents of that directory will be
              examined (though of course -maxdepth 0 would prevent this).

       If more than one of -H, -L and -P is specified, each overrides the others; the last one appearing  on
       the command line takes effect.  Since it is the default, the -P option should be considered to be in
       effect unless either -H or -L  is specified.

       GNU find frequently stats files during the processing of the command line itself, before any searching
       has begun. These options also affect how those arguments are processed. Specifically, there are a
       number of tests that  compare     files  listed  on  the command line against a file we are currently
       considering. In each case, the file specified on the command line will have been examined and some of
       its properties will have been saved. If the named  file is in fact a symbolic link, and the -P option
       is in effect (or if neither -H nor -L were specified), the information used for the comparison will be
       taken from the properties of the symbolic link.  Otherwise, it   will  be taken  from  the properties
       of the file the link points to. If find cannot follow the link (for example because it has insufficient
       privileges or the link points to a nonexistent file) the properties of the link itself will be used.

       When the -H or -L options are in effect, any symbolic links listed as the argument of -newer  will be
       dereferenced, and  the  timestamp will be taken from the file to which the symbolic link points.  The
       same consideration applies to -newerXY, -anewer and -cnewer.

       The -follow option has a similar effect to -L, though it takes effect at the point where it appears
       (that is, if -L is  not used but -follow is, any symbolic links appearing after follow on the command
       line will be dereferenced, and those before it will not).

       -D debugoptions
              Print diagnostic information; this can be helpful to diagnose problems with why find is  not  doing  what  you
              want.  The list of debug options should be comma separated.  Compatibility of the debug options is not guaran‐
              teed between releases of findutils.  For a complete list of valid debug options, see the  output  of  find  -D
              help.  Valid debug options include

              help   Explain the debugging options

              tree   Show the expression tree in its original and optimised form.

              stat   Print  messages  as files are examined with the stat and lstat system calls.
              The find program tries to minimise such calls.

              opt    Prints diagnostic information relating to the optimisation of the expression tree; see the -O option.

              rates  Prints a summary indicating how often each predicate succeeded or failed.

       -Olevel
              Enables query optimisation.
              The find program reorders tests to speed up execution while preserving
              the overall effect; that is, predicates with side effects are not
              reordered relative to each other.  The optimisations
              performed at each optimisation level are as follows.

              0      Equivalent to optimisation level 1.

              1      This is the default optimisation level and corresponds to the traditional behaviour.   Expressions  are
                     reordered  so  that tests based only on the names of files (for example -name and -regex) are performed
                     first.

              2      Any -type or -xtype tests are performed after any tests based only on the names of  files,  but  before
                     any  tests  that  require  information from the inode.  On many modern versions of Unix, file types are
                     returned by readdir() and so these predicates are faster to evaluate than predicates which need to stat
                     the file first.

              3      At this optimisation level, the full cost-based query optimiser is enabled.  The order of tests is mod‐
                     ified so that cheap (i.e. fast) tests are performed first and more expensive ones are performed  later,
                     if  necessary.   Within  each cost band, predicates are evaluated earlier or later according to whether
                     they are likely to succeed or not.  For -o, predicates which are likely to succeed are  evaluated  ear‐
                     lier, and for -a, predicates which are likely to fail are evaluated earlier.

              The cost-based optimiser has a fixed idea of how likely any given test is to succeed.  In some cases the prob‐
              ability takes account of the specific nature of the test (for example, -type f is assumed to be more likely to
              succeed  than  -type  c).   The  cost-based  optimiser is currently being evaluated.   If it does not actually
              improve the performance of find, it will be removed again.  Conversely, optimisations that prove to  be  reli‐
              able, robust and effective may be enabled at lower optimisation levels over time.  However, the default behav‐
              iour (i.e. optimisation level 1) will not be changed in the 4.3.x release series.  The  findutils  test  suite
              runs all the tests on find at each optimisation level and ensures that the result is the same.
EXPRESSIONS
       The  expression  is made up of options (which affect overall operation rather than the processing of a specific file,
       and always return true), tests (which return a true or false value), and actions (which have side effects and  return
       a true or false value), all separated by operators.  -and is assumed where the operator is omitted.

       If the expression contains no actions other than -prune, -print is performed on all files for which the expression is
       true.

   OPTIONS
       All options always return true.  Except for -daystart, -follow and -regextype, the options affect all tests,  includ‐
       ing  tests  specified  before the option.  This is because the options are processed when the command line is parsed,
       while the tests don't do anything until files are examined.  The -daystart, -follow and -regextype options  are  dif‐
       ferent  in  this  respect,  and  have an effect only on tests which appear later in the command line.  Therefore, for
       clarity, it is best to place them at the beginning of the expression.  A warning is issued if you don't do this.

       -d     A synonym for -depth, for compatibility with FreeBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X and OpenBSD.

       -daystart
              Measure times (for -amin, -atime, -cmin, -ctime, -mmin, and -mtime) from the beginning of  today  rather  than
              from 24 hours ago.  This option only affects tests which appear later on the command line.

       -depth Process each directory's contents before the directory itself.  The -delete action also implies -depth.

       -follow
              Deprecated;  use  the  -L  option  instead.  Dereference symbolic links.  Implies -noleaf.  The -follow option
              affects only those tests which appear after it on the command line.  Unless the -H or -L option has been spec‐
              ified,  the  position of the -follow option changes the behaviour of the -newer predicate; any files listed as
              the argument of -newer will be dereferenced if they are symbolic links.  The  same  consideration  applies  to
              -newerXY,  -anewer and -cnewer.  Similarly, the -type predicate will always match against the type of the file
              that a symbolic link points to rather than the link itself.  Using -follow causes the -lname and -ilname pred‐
              icates always to return false.
       -help, --help
              Print a summary of the command-line usage of find and exit.

       -ignore_readdir_race
              Normally, find will emit an error message when it fails to stat a file.  If you give this option and a file is
              deleted between the time find reads the name of the file from the directory and the time it tries to stat  the
              file,  no  error message will be issued.    This also applies to files or directories whose names are given on
              the command line.  This option takes effect at the time the command line is read, which means that you  cannot
              search  one  part of the filesystem with this option on and part of it with this option off (if you need to do
              that, you will need to issue two find commands instead, one with the option and one without it).

       -maxdepth levels
              Descend at most levels (a non-negative integer) levels  of  directories  below  the  command  line  arguments.
              -maxdepth 0
               means only apply the tests and actions to the command line arguments.

       -mindepth levels
              Do  not  apply  any  tests  or actions at levels less than levels (a non-negative integer).  -mindepth 1 means
              process all files except the command line arguments.

       -mount Don't descend directories on other filesystems.  An alternate name for  -xdev,  for  compatibility  with  some
              other versions of find.

       -noignore_readdir_race
              Turns off the effect of -ignore_readdir_race.

       -noleaf
              Do  not optimize by assuming that directories contain 2 fewer subdirectories than their hard link count.  This
              option is needed when searching filesystems that do not follow the Unix directory-link convention, such as CD-
              ROM or MS-DOS filesystems or AFS volume mount points.  Each directory on a normal Unix filesystem has at least
              2 hard links: its name and its `.'  entry.  Additionally, its subdirectories (if any) each have a `..'   entry
              linked  to  that  directory.   When find is examining a directory, after it has statted 2 fewer subdirectories
              than the directory's link count, it knows that the rest of the entries in the  directory  are  non-directories
              (`leaf'  files in the directory tree).  If only the files' names need to be examined, there is no need to stat
              them; this gives a significant increase in search speed.

       -regextype type
              Changes the regular expression syntax understood by -regex and -iregex tests which occur later on the  command
              line.   Currently-implemented  types  are emacs (this is the default), posix-awk, posix-basic, posix-egrep and
              posix-extended.

       -version, --version
              Print the find version number and exit.

       -warn, -nowarn
              Turn warning messages on or off.  These warnings apply only to the command line usage, not to  any  conditions
              that  find  might encounter when it searches directories.  The default behaviour corresponds to -warn if stan‐
              dard input is a tty, and to -nowarn otherwise.

       -xdev  Don't descend directories on other filesystems.

   TESTS
       Some tests, for example -newerXY and -samefile, allow comparison between the file currently being examined  and  some
       reference file specified on the command line.  When these tests are used, the interpretation of the reference file is
       determined by the options -H, -L and -P and any previous -follow, but the reference file is only  examined  once,  at
       the  time the command line is parsed.  If the reference file cannot be examined (for example, the stat(2) system call
       fails for it), an error message is issued, and find exits with a nonzero status.

       Numeric arguments can be specified as

       +n     for greater than n,

       -n     for less than n,

       n      for exactly n.

       -amin n
              File was last accessed n minutes ago.

       -anewer file
              File was last accessed more recently than file was modified.  If file is a symbolic link and the -H option  or
              the -L option is in effect, the access time of the file it points to is always used.

       -atime n
              File  was  last accessed n*24 hours ago.  When find figures out how many 24-hour periods ago the file was last
              accessed, any fractional part is ignored, so to match -atime +1, a file has to have been accessed at least two
              days ago.

       -cmin n
              File's status was last changed n minutes ago.

       -cnewer file
              File's  status  was  last changed more recently than file was modified.  If file is a symbolic link and the -H
              option or the -L option is in effect, the status-change time of the file it points to is always used.

       -ctime n
              File's status was last changed n*24 hours ago.  See the comments for -atime to understand how rounding affects
              the interpretation of file status change times.

       -empty File is empty and is either a regular file or a directory.

       -executable
              Matches  files  which  are  executable and directories which are searchable (in a file name resolution sense).
              This takes into account access control lists and other permissions artefacts which  the  -perm  test  ignores.
              This test makes use of the access(2) system call, and so can be fooled by NFS servers which do UID mapping (or
              root-squashing), since many systems implement access(2) in the client's kernel and so cannot make use  of  the
              UID  mapping  information  held on the server.  Because this test is based only on the result of the access(2)
              system call, there is no guarantee that a file for which this test succeeds can actually be executed.

       -false Always false.

       -fstype type
              File is on a filesystem of type type.  The valid filesystem types vary among different versions  of  Unix;  an
              incomplete  list  of  filesystem types that are accepted on some version of Unix or another is: ufs, 4.2, 4.3,
              nfs, tmp, mfs, S51K, S52K.  You can use -printf with the %F directive to see the types of your filesystems.

       -gid n File's numeric group ID is n.

       -group gname
              File belongs to group gname (numeric group ID allowed).

       -ilname pattern
              Like -lname, but the match is case insensitive.  If the -L option or the -follow option  is  in  effect,  this
              test returns false unless the symbolic link is broken.

       -iname pattern
              Like -name, but the match is case insensitive.  For example, the patterns `fo*' and `F??' match the file names
              `Foo', `FOO', `foo', `fOo', etc.   In these patterns, unlike filename expansion by the shell, an  initial  '.'
              can  be matched by `*'.  That is, find -name *bar will match the file `.foobar'.   Please note that you should
              quote patterns as a matter of course, otherwise the shell will expand any wildcard characters in them.

       -inum n
              File has inode number n.  It is normally easier to use the -samefile test instead.

       -ipath pattern
              Behaves in the same way as -iwholename.  This option is deprecated, so please do not use it.

       -iregex pattern
              Like -regex, but the match is case insensitive.

       -iwholename pattern
              Like -wholename, but the match is case insensitive.

       -links n
              File has n links.

       -lname pattern
              File is a symbolic link whose contents match shell pattern pattern.  The metacharacters do not  treat  `/'  or
              `.'  specially.   If the -L option or the -follow option is in effect, this test returns false unless the sym‐
              bolic link is broken.

       -mmin n
              File's data was last modified n minutes ago.

       -mtime n
              File's data was last modified n*24 hours ago.  See the comments for -atime to understand how rounding  affects
              the interpretation of file modification times.

       -name pattern
              Base  of  file  name  (the  path  with  the  leading  directories removed) matches shell pattern pattern.  The
              metacharacters (`*', `?', and `[]') match a `.' at the start of the base name (this  is  a  change  in  findu‐
              tils-4.2.2;  see  section  STANDARDS  CONFORMANCE  below).   To ignore a directory and the files under it, use
              -prune; see an example in the description of -path.  Braces are not recognised as being special,  despite  the
              fact  that  some  shells  including  Bash imbue braces with a special meaning in shell patterns.  The filename
              matching is performed with the use of the fnmatch(3) library function.   Don't forget to enclose  the  pattern
              in quotes in order to protect it from expansion by the shell.

       -newer file
              File  was  modified more recently than file.  If file is a symbolic link and the -H option or the -L option is
              in effect, the modification time of the file it points to is always used.

       -newerXY reference
              Compares the timestamp of the current file with reference.  The reference argument is normally the name  of  a
              file (and one of its timestamps is used for the comparison) but it may also be a string describing an absolute
              time.  X and Y are placeholders for other letters, and these letters select which time belonging to how refer‐
              ence is used for the comparison.

              a   The access time of the file reference
              B   The birth time of the file reference
              c   The inode status change time of reference
              m   The modification time of the file reference
              t   reference is interpreted directly as a time
              Some  combinations  are  invalid;  for example, it is invalid for X to be t.  Some combinations are not imple‐
              mented on all systems; for example B is not supported on all systems.  If an invalid or  unsupported  combina‐
              tion  of  XY  is specified, a fatal error results.  Time specifications are interpreted as for the argument to
              the -d option of GNU date.  If you try to use the birth time of a reference file, and the birth time cannot be
              determined,  a  fatal  error  message  results.  If you specify a test which refers to the birth time of files
              being examined, this test will fail for any files where the birth time is unknown.

       -nogroup
              No group corresponds to file's numeric group ID.

       -nouser
              No user corresponds to file's numeric user ID.

       -path pattern
              File name matches shell pattern pattern.  The metacharacters do not treat `/' or `.' specially; so, for  exam‐
              ple,
                        find . -path "./sr*sc"
              will  print  an  entry for a directory called `./src/misc' (if one exists).  To ignore a whole directory tree,
              use -prune rather than checking every file in the tree.  For example, to skip the  directory  `src/emacs'  and
              all files and directories under it, and print the names of the other files found, do something like this:
                        find . -path ./src/emacs -prune -o -print
              Note  that  the pattern match test applies to the whole file name, starting from one of the start points named
              on the command line.  It would only make sense to use an absolute path name here if the relevant  start  point
              is also an absolute path.  This means that this command will never match anything:
                        find bar -path /foo/bar/myfile -print
              The  predicate  -path  is also supported by HP-UX find and will be in a forthcoming version of the POSIX stan‐
              dard.

       -perm mode
              File's permission bits are exactly mode (octal or symbolic).  Since an exact match is required, if you want to
              use this form for symbolic modes, you may have to specify a rather complex mode string.  For example -perm g=w
              will only match files which have mode 0020 (that is, ones for which group write permission is the only permis‐
              sion  set).   It  is more likely that you will want to use the `/' or `-' forms, for example -perm -g=w, which
              matches any file with group write permission.  See the EXAMPLES section for some illustrative examples.

       -perm -mode
              All of the permission bits mode are set for the file.  Symbolic modes are accepted in this form, and  this  is
              usually the way in which would want to use them.  You must specify `u', `g' or `o' if you use a symbolic mode.
              See the EXAMPLES section for some illustrative examples.

       -perm /mode
              Any of the permission bits mode are set for the file.  Symbolic modes are accepted in  this  form.   You  must
              specify  `u', `g' or `o' if you use a symbolic mode.  See the EXAMPLES section for some illustrative examples.
              If no permission bits in mode are set, this test matches any file (the idea here is to be consistent with  the
              behaviour of -perm -000).

       -perm +mode
              Deprecated,  old way of searching for files with any of the permission bits in mode set.  You should use -perm
              /mode instead. Trying to use the `+' syntax with symbolic modes will yield surprising results.   For  example,
              `+u+x'  is a valid symbolic mode (equivalent to +u,+x, i.e. 0111) and will therefore not be evaluated as -perm
              +mode but instead as the exact mode specifier -perm mode and so it matches files with exact  permissions  0111
              instead of files with any execute bit set.  If you found this paragraph confusing, you're not alone - just use
              -perm /mode.  This form of the -perm test is deprecated because the POSIX specification requires the interpre‐
              tation of a leading `+' as being part of a symbolic mode, and so we switched to using `/' instead.

       -readable
              Matches  files  which  are readable.  This takes into account access control lists and other permissions arte‐
              facts which the -perm test ignores.  This test makes use of the access(2) system call, and so can be fooled by
              NFS  servers  which do UID mapping (or root-squashing), since many systems implement access(2) in the client's
              kernel and so cannot make use of the UID mapping information held on the server.

       -regex pattern
              File name matches regular expression pattern.  This is a match on the whole path, not a search.  For  example,
              to  match  a  file named `./fubar3', you can use the regular expression `.*bar.' or `.*b.*3', but not `f.*r3'.
              The regular expressions understood by find are by default Emacs Regular Expressions, but this can  be  changed
              with the -regextype option.

       -samefile name
              File refers to the same inode as name.   When -L is in effect, this can include symbolic links.

       -size n[cwbkMG]
              File uses n units of space.  The following suffixes can be used:

              `b'    for 512-byte blocks (this is the default if no suffix is used)

              `c'    for bytes

              `w'    for two-byte words

              `k'    for Kilobytes (units of 1024 bytes)

              `M'    for Megabytes (units of 1048576 bytes)

              `G'    for Gigabytes (units of 1073741824 bytes)

              The  size does not count indirect blocks, but it does count blocks in sparse files that are not actually allo‐
              cated.  Bear in mind that the `%k' and `%b' format specifiers of -printf handle sparse files differently.  The
              `b'  suffix always denotes 512-byte blocks and never 1 Kilobyte blocks, which is different to the behaviour of
              -ls.
       -true  Always true.

       -type c
              File is of type c:

              b      block (buffered) special

              c      character (unbuffered) special

              d      directory

              p      named pipe (FIFO)

              f      regular file

              l      symbolic link; this is never true if the -L option or the -follow option is in effect, unless the  sym‐
                     bolic link is broken.  If you want to search for symbolic links when -L is in effect, use -xtype.

              s      socket

              D      door (Solaris)

       -uid n File's numeric user ID is n.

       -used n
              File was last accessed n days after its status was last changed.

       -user uname
              File is owned by user uname (numeric user ID allowed).

       -wholename pattern
              See -path.    This alternative is less portable than -path.
       -writable
              Matches  files  which  are writable.  This takes into account access control lists and other permissions arte‐
              facts which the -perm test ignores.  This test makes use of the access(2) system call, and so can be fooled by
              NFS  servers  which do UID mapping (or root-squashing), since many systems implement access(2) in the client's
              kernel and so cannot make use of the UID mapping information held on the server.

       -xtype c
              The same as -type unless the file is a symbolic link.  For symbolic links: if the -H or -P option  was  speci‐
              fied,  true  if the file is a link to a file of type c; if the -L option has been given, true if c is `l'.  In
              other words, for symbolic links, -xtype checks the type of the file that -type does not check.

   ACTIONS
       -delete
              Delete files; true if removal succeeded.  If the removal failed, an  error  message  is  issued.   If  -delete
              fails,  find's  exit status will be nonzero (when it eventually exits).  Use of -delete automatically turns on
              the -depth option.

              Warnings: Don't forget that the find command line is evaluated as an expression, so putting -delete first will
              make  find try to delete everything below the starting points you specified.  When testing a find command line
              that you later intend to use with -delete, you should explicitly specify -depth in order to avoid  later  sur‐
              prises.  Because -delete implies -depth, you cannot usefully use -prune and -delete together.

       -exec command ;
              Execute  command;  true if 0 status is returned.  All following arguments to find are taken to be arguments to
              the command until an argument consisting of `;' is encountered.  The string `{}' is replaced  by  the  current
              file name being processed everywhere it occurs in the arguments to the command, not just in arguments where it
              is alone, as in some versions of find.  Both of these constructions might need to be escaped (with a  `\')  or
              quoted  to  protect them from expansion by the shell.  See the EXAMPLES section for examples of the use of the
              -exec option.  The specified command is run once for each matched file.  The command is executed in the start‐
              ing  directory.    There are unavoidable security problems surrounding use of the -exec action; you should use
              the -execdir option instead.
       -exec command {} +
              This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the selected files, but  the  command  line  is
              built  by appending each selected file name at the end; the total number of invocations of the command will be
              much less than the number of matched files.  The command line is built in much the same way that xargs  builds
              its  command  lines.  Only one instance of `{}' is allowed within the command.  The command is executed in the
              starting directory.

       -execdir command ;

       -execdir command {} +
              Like -exec, but the specified command is run from the subdirectory containing the matched file, which  is  not
              normally the directory in which you started find.  This a much more secure method for invoking commands, as it
              avoids race conditions during resolution of the paths to the matched files.  As with the -exec action, the `+'
              form  of -execdir will build a command line to process more than one matched file, but any given invocation of
              command will only list files that exist in the same subdirectory.  If you use this  option,  you  must  ensure
              that  your $PATH environment variable does not reference `.'; otherwise, an attacker can run any commands they
              like by leaving an appropriately-named file in a directory in which you will run -execdir.  The  same  applies
              to having entries in $PATH which are empty or which are not absolute directory names.

       -fls file
              True;  like  -ls  but write to file like -fprint.  The output file is always created, even if the predicate is
              never matched.  See the UNUSUAL FILENAMES section for information about how unusual  characters  in  filenames
              are handled.

       -fprint file
              True;  print the full file name into file file.  If file does not exist when find is run, it is created; if it
              does exist, it is truncated.  The file names ``/dev/stdout'' and ``/dev/stderr'' are handled  specially;  they
              refer to the standard output and standard error output, respectively.  The output file is always created, even
              if the predicate is never matched.  See the UNUSUAL FILENAMES section for information about how unusual  char‐
              acters in filenames are handled.
       -fprint0 file
              True;  like  -print0 but write to file like -fprint.  The output file is always created, even if the predicate
              is never matched.  See the UNUSUAL FILENAMES section for information about how unusual characters in filenames
              are handled.

       -fprintf file format
              True;  like  -printf but write to file like -fprint.  The output file is always created, even if the predicate
              is never matched.  See the UNUSUAL FILENAMES section for information about how unusual characters in filenames
              are handled.

       -ls    True;  list current file in ls -dils format on standard output.  The block counts are of 1K blocks, unless the
              environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, in which case 512-byte blocks are used.  See  the  UNUSUAL  FILE‐
              NAMES section for information about how unusual characters in filenames are handled.

       -ok command ;
              Like -exec but ask the user first.  If the user agrees, run the command.  Otherwise just return false.  If the
              command is run, its standard input is redirected from /dev/null.

              The response to the prompt is matched against a pair of regular expressions to determine if it is an  affirma‐
              tive or negative response.  This regular expression is obtained from the system if the `POSIXLY_CORRECT' envi‐
              ronment variable is set, or otherwise from find's message translations.  If the system has no suitable defini‐
              tion,  find's  own  definition  will  be  used.   In either case, the interpretation of the regular expression
              itself will be affected by the environment variables 'LC_CTYPE' (character classes) and 'LC_COLLATE'  (charac‐
              ter ranges and equivalence classes).

       -okdir command ;
              Like  -execdir  but  ask  the  user first in the same way as for -ok.  If the user does not agree, just return
              false.  If the command is run, its standard input is redirected from /dev/null.

       -print True; print the full file name on the standard output, followed by a newline.   If you are piping  the  output
              of  find into another program and there is the faintest possibility that the files which you are searching for
              might contain a newline, then you should seriously consider using the -print0 option instead of  -print.   See
              the UNUSUAL FILENAMES section for information about how unusual characters in filenames are handled.

       -print0
              True;  print  the  full file name on the standard output, followed by a null character (instead of the newline
              character that -print uses).  This allows file names that contain newlines or other types of white space to be
              correctly  interpreted  by programs that process the find output.  This option corresponds to the -0 option of
              xargs.

       -printf format
              True; print format on the standard output, interpreting `\' escapes and `%' directives.  Field widths and pre‐
              cisions  can be specified as with the `printf' C function.  Please note that many of the fields are printed as
              %s rather than %d, and this may mean that flags don't work as you might expect.  This also means that the  `-'
              flag  does  work  (it forces fields to be left-aligned).  Unlike -print, -printf does not add a newline at the
              end of the string.  The escapes and directives are:

              \a     Alarm bell.

              \b     Backspace.

              \c     Stop printing from this format immediately and flush the output.

              \f     Form feed.

              \n     Newline.

              \r     Carriage return.

              \t     Horizontal tab.

              \v     Vertical tab.

              \0     ASCII NUL.

              \\     A literal backslash (`\').

              \NNN   The character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal).

              A `\' character followed by any other character is treated as an ordinary character, so they both are printed.

              %%     A literal percent sign.

              %a     File's last access time in the format returned by the C `ctime' function.

              %Ak    File's last access time in the format specified by k, which is either `@' or  a  directive  for  the  C
                     `strftime'  function.   The possible values for k are listed below; some of them might not be available
                     on all systems, due to differences in `strftime' between systems.

                     @      seconds since Jan. 1, 1970, 00:00 GMT, with fractional part.

                     Time fields:

                     H      hour (00..23)

                     I      hour (01..12)

                     k      hour ( 0..23)

                     l      hour ( 1..12)

                     M      minute (00..59)

                     p      locale's AM or PM

                     r      time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M)

                     S      Second (00.00 .. 61.00).  There is a fractional part.

                     T      time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)

                     +      Date and time, separated by `+', for example `2004-04-28+22:22:05.0'.  This is a GNU  extension.
                            The  time  is given in the current timezone (which may be affected by setting the TZ environment
                            variable).  The seconds field includes a fractional part.

                     X      locale's time representation (H:M:S)

                     Z      time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is determinable

                     Date fields:

                     a      locale's abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)

                     A      locale's full weekday name, variable length (Sunday..Saturday)

                     b      locale's abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)

                     B      locale's full month name, variable length (January..December)

                     c      locale's date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989).  The format is the same as  for  ctime(3)
                            and  so  to  preserve compatibility with that format, there is no fractional part in the seconds
                            field.

                     d      day of month (01..31)

                     D      date (mm/dd/yy)

                     h      same as b

                     j      day of year (001..366)

                     m      month (01..12)

                     U      week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)

                     w      day of week (0..6)

                     W      week number of year with Monday as first day of week (00..53)

                     x      locale's date representation (mm/dd/yy)

                     y      last two digits of year (00..99)

                     Y      year (1970...)

              %b     The amount of disk space used for this file in 512-byte blocks. Since disk space is allocated in multi‐
                     ples  of  the  filesystem block size this is usually greater than %s/512, but it can also be smaller if
                     the file is a sparse file.

              %c     File's last status change time in the format returned by the C `ctime' function.

              %Ck    File's last status change time in the format specified by k, which is the same as for %A.

              %d     File's depth in the directory tree; 0 means the file is a command line argument.

              %D     The device number on which the file exists (the st_dev field of struct stat), in decimal.

              %f     File's name with any leading directories removed (only the last element).

              %F     Type of the filesystem the file is on; this value can be used for -fstype.

              %g     File's group name, or numeric group ID if the group has no name.

              %G     File's numeric group ID.

              %h     Leading directories of file's name (all but the last element).  If the file name  contains  no  slashes
                     (since it is in the current directory) the %h specifier expands to ".".

              %H     Command line argument under which file was found.

              %i     File's inode number (in decimal).

              %k     The amount of disk space used for this file in 1K blocks. Since disk space is allocated in multiples of
                     the filesystem block size this is usually greater than %s/1024, but it can also be smaller if the  file
                     is a sparse file.

              %l     Object of symbolic link (empty string if file is not a symbolic link).

              %m     File's  permission  bits (in octal).  This option uses the `traditional' numbers which most Unix imple‐
                     mentations use, but if your particular implementation uses an unusual  ordering  of  octal  permissions
                     bits,  you  will  see  a  difference  between the actual value of the file's mode and the output of %m.
                     Normally you will want to have a leading zero on this number, and to do this, you should use the # flag
                     (as in, for example, `%#m').

              %M     File's  permissions  (in symbolic form, as for ls).  This directive is supported in findutils 4.2.5 and
                     later.

              %n     Number of hard links to file.

              %p     File's name.

              %P     File's name with the name of the command line argument under which it was found removed.

              %s     File's size in bytes.

              %S     File's sparseness.  This is calculated as (BLOCKSIZE*st_blocks / st_size).  The exact  value  you  will
                     get  for an ordinary file of a certain length is system-dependent.  However, normally sparse files will
                     have values less than 1.0, and files which use indirect blocks may have a value which is  greater  than
                     1.0.    The  value used for BLOCKSIZE is system-dependent, but is usually 512 bytes.   If the file size
                     is zero, the value printed is undefined.  On systems which lack support for st_blocks, a file's sparse‐
                     ness is assumed to be 1.0.

              %t     File's last modification time in the format returned by the C `ctime' function.

              %Tk    File's last modification time in the format specified by k, which is the same as for %A.

              %u     File's user name, or numeric user ID if the user has no name.

              %U     File's numeric user ID.
              %y     File's type (like in ls -l), U=unknown type (shouldn't happen)

              %Y     File's type (like %y), plus follow symlinks: L=loop, N=nonexistent

              A  `%'  character followed by any other character is discarded, but the other character is printed (don't rely
              on this, as further format characters may be introduced).  A `%' at the end  of  the  format  argument  causes
              undefined behaviour since there is no following character.  In some locales, it may hide your door keys, while
              in others it may remove the final page from the novel you are reading.

              The %m and %d directives support the # , 0 and + flags, but the other directives do not, even  if  they  print
              numbers.  Numeric directives that do not support these flags include G, U, b, D, k and n.  The `-' format flag
              is supported and changes the alignment of a field from right-justified (which is the default)  to  left-justi‐
              fied.

              See the UNUSUAL FILENAMES section for information about how unusual characters in filenames are handled.

       -prune True;  if  the  file  is  a  directory, do not descend into it. If -depth is given, false; no effect.  Because
              -delete implies -depth, you cannot usefully use -prune and -delete together.

       -quit  Exit immediately.  No child processes will be left running, but no more paths specified on  the  command  line
              will  be  processed.   For example, find /tmp/foo /tmp/bar -print -quit will print only /tmp/foo.  Any command
              lines which have been built up with -execdir ... {} + will be invoked before find exits.   The exit status may
              or may not be zero, depending on whether an error has already occurred.

   UNUSUAL FILENAMES
       Many  of the actions of find result in the printing of data which is under the control of other users.  This includes
       file names, sizes, modification times and so forth.  File names are a potential problem since they  can  contain  any
       character  except  `\0'  and `/'.  Unusual characters in file names can do unexpected and often undesirable things to
       your terminal (for example, changing the settings of your function keys on some terminals).  Unusual  characters  are
       handled differently by various actions, as described below.
       -print0, -fprint0
              Always print the exact filename, unchanged, even if the output is going to a terminal.

       -ls, -fls
              Unusual  characters are always escaped.  White space, backslash, and double quote characters are printed using
              C-style escaping (for example `\f', `\"').  Other unusual characters are printed using an octal escape.  Other
              printable characters (for -ls and -fls these are the characters between octal 041 and 0176) are printed as-is.

       -printf, -fprintf
              If  the output is not going to a terminal, it is printed as-is.  Otherwise, the result depends on which direc‐
              tive is in use.  The directives %D, %F, %g, %G, %H, %Y, and %y expand to values which are not under control of
              files' owners, and so are printed as-is.  The directives %a, %b, %c, %d, %i, %k, %m, %M, %n, %s, %t, %u and %U
              have values which are under the control of files' owners but which cannot be used to send  arbitrary  data  to
              the  terminal, and so these are printed as-is.  The directives %f, %h, %l, %p and %P are quoted.  This quoting
              is performed in the same way as for GNU ls.  This is not the same quoting mechanism as the one  used  for  -ls
              and  -fls.   If you are able to decide what format to use for the output of find then it is normally better to
              use `\0' as a terminator than to use newline, as file names can contain white space  and  newline  characters.
              The setting of the `LC_CTYPE' environment variable is used to determine which characters need to be quoted.

       -print, -fprint
              Quoting  is  handled  in  the same way as for -printf and -fprintf.  If you are using find in a script or in a
              situation where the matched files might have arbitrary names, you should consider  using  -print0  instead  of
              -print.

       The -ok and -okdir actions print the current filename as-is.  This may change in a future release.

   OPERATORS
       Listed in order of decreasing precedence:

       ( expr )
              Force  precedence.  Since parentheses are special to the shell, you will normally need to quote them.  Many of
              the examples in this manual page use backslashes for this purpose: `\(...\)' instead of `(...)'.

       ! expr True if expr is false.  This character will also usually need protection from interpretation by the shell.

       -not expr
              Same as ! expr, but not POSIX compliant.

       expr1 expr2
              Two expressions in a row are taken to be joined with an implied "and"; expr2 is  not  evaluated  if  expr1  is
              false.

       expr1 -a expr2
              Same as expr1 expr2.

       expr1 -and expr2
              Same as expr1 expr2, but not POSIX compliant.

       expr1 -o expr2
              Or; expr2 is not evaluated if expr1 is true.

       expr1 -or expr2
              Same as expr1 -o expr2, but not POSIX compliant.

       expr1 , expr2
              List;  both  expr1  and expr2 are always evaluated.  The value of expr1 is discarded; the value of the list is
              the value of expr2. The comma operator can be useful for searching for several different types of  thing,  but
              traversing  the  filesystem  hierarchy only once.  The -fprintf action can be used to list the various matched
              items into several different output files.

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
       For closest compliance to the POSIX standard, you should set the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable.  The following
       options are specified in the POSIX standard (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition):

       -H     This option is supported.

       -L     This option is supported.

       -name  This  option  is  supported, but POSIX conformance depends on the POSIX conformance of the system's fnmatch(3)
              library function.  As of findutils-4.2.2, shell metacharacters (`*', `?' or `[]' for  example)  will  match  a
              leading  `.', because IEEE PASC interpretation 126 requires this.   This is a change from previous versions of
              findutils.

       -type  Supported.   POSIX specifies `b', `c', `d', `l', `p', `f' and `s'.  GNU find also supports `D', representing a
              Door, where the OS provides these.

       -ok    Supported.  Interpretation of the response is according to the "yes" and "no" patterns selected by setting the
              `LC_MESSAGES' environment variable.  When the `POSIXLY_CORRECT' environment variable is  set,  these  patterns
              are  taken  system's  definition of a positive (yes) or negative (no) response. See the system's documentation
              for nl_langinfo(3), in particular YESEXPR and NOEXPR.    When `POSIXLY_CORRECT' is not set, the  patterns  are
              instead taken from find's own message catalogue.

       -newer Supported.  If the file specified is a symbolic link, it is always dereferenced.  This is a change from previ‐
              ous behaviour, which used to take the relevant time from the symbolic link; see the HISTORY section below.

       -perm  Supported.  If the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is not set, some mode  arguments  (for  example  +a+x)
              which are not valid in POSIX are supported for backward-compatibility.

       Other predicates
              The predicates -atime, -ctime, -depth, -group, -links, -mtime, -nogroup, -nouser, -print, -prune, -size, -user
              and -xdev are all supported.

       The POSIX standard specifies parentheses `(', `)', negation `!' and the `and' and `or' operators ( -a, -o).

       All other options, predicates, expressions and so forth are extensions beyond the  POSIX  standard.   Many  of  these
       extensions are not unique to GNU find, however.

       The POSIX standard requires that find detects loops:

              The  find  utility  shall  detect  infinite loops; that is, entering a previously visited directory that is an
              ancestor of the last file encountered. When it detects an infinite loop, find shall write a diagnostic message
              to standard error and shall either recover its position in the hierarchy or terminate.

       GNU  find complies with these requirements.  The link count of directories which contain entries which are hard links
       to an ancestor will often be lower than they otherwise should be.  This can mean that GNU find will  sometimes  opti‐
       mise away the visiting of a subdirectory which is actually a link to an ancestor.  Since find does not actually enter
       such a subdirectory, it is allowed to avoid emitting a diagnostic message.  Although this behaviour may  be  somewhat
       confusing,  it is unlikely that anybody actually depends on this behaviour.  If the leaf optimisation has been turned
       off with -noleaf, the directory entry will always be examined and the diagnostic message will be issued where  it  is
       appropriate.   Symbolic links cannot be used to create filesystem cycles as such, but if the -L option or the -follow
       option is in use, a diagnostic message is issued when find encounters a loop of symbolic links.  As with  loops  con‐
       taining  hard  links,  the  leaf  optimisation will often mean that find knows that it doesn't need to call stat() or
       chdir() on the symbolic link, so this diagnostic is frequently not necessary.

       The -d option is supported for compatibility with various BSD systems, but you should use the POSIX-compliant  option
       -depth instead.

       The  POSIXLY_CORRECT  environment variable does not affect the behaviour of the -regex or -iregex tests because those
       tests aren't specified in the POSIX standard.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       LANG   Provides a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null.

       LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization variables.

       LC_COLLATE
              The POSIX standard specifies that this variable affects the pattern matching to be used for the -name  option.
              GNU  find uses the fnmatch(3) library function, and so support for `LC_COLLATE' depends on the system library.
              This variable also affects the interpretation of the response to -ok; while the `LC_MESSAGES' variable selects
              the actual pattern used to interpret the response to -ok, the interpretation of any bracket expressions in the
              pattern will be affected by `LC_COLLATE'.

       LC_CTYPE
              This variable affects the treatment of character classes used in regular expressions and also with  the  -name
              test,  if  the system's fnmatch(3) library function supports this.  This variable also affects the interpreta‐
              tion of any character classes in the regular expressions used to interpret the response to the  prompt  issued
              by  -ok.   The `LC_CTYPE' environment variable will also affect which characters are considered to be unprint‐
              able when filenames are printed; see the section UNUSUAL FILENAMES.

       LC_MESSAGES
              Determines the locale to be used for internationalised messages.  If the `POSIXLY_CORRECT'  environment  vari‐
              able is set, this also determines the interpretation of the response to the prompt made by the -ok action.

       NLSPATH
              Determines the location of the internationalisation message catalogues.

       PATH   Affects the directories which are searched to find the executables invoked by -exec, -execdir, -ok and -okdir.

       POSIXLY_CORRECT
              Determines  the  block  size  used by -ls and -fls.  If POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, blocks are units of 512 bytes.
              Otherwise they are units of 1024 bytes.

              Setting this variable also turns off warning messages (that is, implies -nowarn)  by  default,  because  POSIX
              requires that apart from the output for -ok, all messages printed on stderr are diagnostics and must result in
              a non-zero exit status.

              When POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set, -perm +zzz is treated just like -perm /zzz if +zzz is not  a  valid  symbolic
              mode.  When POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, such constructs are treated as an error.

              When POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, the response to the prompt made by the -ok action is interpreted according to the
              system's message catalogue, as opposed to according to find's own message translations.

       TZ     Affects the time zone used for some of the time-related format directives of -printf and -fprintf.

EXAMPLES
       find /tmp -name core -type f -print | xargs /bin/rm -f

       Find files named core in or below the directory /tmp and delete them.  Note that this will work incorrectly if  there
       are any filenames containing newlines, single or double quotes, or spaces.

       find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f

       Find files named core in or below the directory /tmp and delete them, processing filenames in such a way that file or
       directory names containing single or double quotes, spaces or newlines are correctly handled.  The -name  test  comes
       before the -type test in order to avoid having to call stat(2) on every file.

       find . -type f -exec file '{}' \;

       Runs  `file'  on  every  file in or below the current directory.  Notice that the braces are enclosed in single quote
       marks to protect them from interpretation as shell script punctuation.  The semicolon is similarly protected  by  the
       use of a backslash, though single quotes could have been used in that case also.

       find / \
       \( -perm -4000 -fprintf /root/suid.txt %#m %u %p\n \) , \
       \( -size +100M -fprintf /root/big.txt %-10s %p\n \)

       Traverse  the  filesystem  just  once,  listing setuid files and directories into /root/suid.txt and large files into
       /root/big.txt.

       find $HOME -mtime 0

       Search for files in your home directory which have been modified in the last twenty-four hours.  This  command  works
       this  way  because  the time since each file was last modified is divided by 24 hours and any remainder is discarded.
       That means that to match -mtime 0, a file will have to have a modification in the past which is less  than  24  hours
       ago.

       find /sbin /usr/sbin -executable \! -readable -print

       Search for files which are executable but not readable.

       find . -perm 664

       Search  for files which have read and write permission for their owner, and group, but which other users can read but
       not write to.  Files which meet these criteria but have other permissions bits set (for example if someone  can  exe‐
       cute the file) will not be matched.

       find . -perm -664

       Search  for  files  which  have  read and write permission for their owner and group, and which other users can read,
       without regard to the presence of any extra permission bits (for example the executable bit).  This will match a file
       which has mode 0777, for example.

       find . -perm /222

       Search for files which are writable by somebody (their owner, or their group, or anybody else).

       find . -perm /220
       find . -perm /u+w,g+w
       find . -perm /u=w,g=w

       All  three of these commands do the same thing, but the first one uses the octal representation of the file mode, and
       the other two use the symbolic form.  These commands all search for files which are writable by either their owner or
       their group.  The files don't have to be writable by both the owner and group to be matched; either will do.

       find . -perm -220
       find . -perm -g+w,u+w

       Both these commands do the same thing; search for files which are writable by both their owner and their group.

       find . -perm -444 -perm /222 ! -perm /111
       find . -perm -a+r -perm /a+w ! -perm /a+x

       These  two  commands both search for files that are readable for everybody ( -perm -444 or -perm -a+r), have at least
       one write bit set ( -perm /222 or -perm /a+w) but are not executable for anybody ( ! -perm  /111  and  !  -perm  /a+x
       respectively).

       cd /source-dir
       find . -name .snapshot -prune -o \( \! -name *~ -print0 \)|
       cpio -pmd0 /dest-dir

       This  command  copies  the contents of /source-dir to /dest-dir, but omits files and directories named .snapshot (and
       anything in them).  It also omits files or directories whose name ends in ~, but not their contents.   The  construct
       -prune -o \( ... -print0 \) is quite common.  The idea here is that the expression before -prune matches things which
       are to be pruned.  However, the -prune action itself returns true, so the following -o ensures that  the  right  hand
       side  is evaluated only for those directories which didn't get pruned (the contents of the pruned directories are not
       even visited, so their contents are irrelevant).  The expression on the right hand side of the -o is  in  parentheses
       only  for clarity.  It emphasises that the -print0 action takes place only for things that didn't have -prune applied
       to them.  Because the default `and' condition between tests binds more tightly than -o, this is the  default  anyway,
       but the parentheses help to show what is going on.

       find repo/ -exec test -d {}/.svn -o -d {}/.git -o -d {}/CVS ; \
       -print -prune

       Given  the  following directory of projects and their associated SCM administrative directories, perform an efficient
       search for the projects' roots:

       repo/project1/CVS
       repo/gnu/project2/.svn
       repo/gnu/project3/.svn
       repo/gnu/project3/src/.svn
       repo/project4/.git

       In this example, -prune prevents unnecessary descent into directories that have already been discovered (for  example
       we  do not search project3/src because we already found project3/.svn), but ensures sibling directories (project2 and
       project3) are found.

EXIT STATUS
       find exits with status 0 if all files are processed successfully, greater than 0 if errors occur.   This is  deliber‐
       ately  a  very  broad description, but if the return value is non-zero, you should not rely on the correctness of the
       results of find.
SEE ALSO
       locate(1), locatedb(5), updatedb(1), xargs(1), chmod(1), fnmatch(3), regex(7), stat(2), lstat(2),  ls(1),  printf(3),
       strftime(3), ctime(3), Finding Files (on-line in Info, or printed).

HISTORY
       As  of  findutils-4.2.2,  shell  metacharacters (`*', `?' or `[]' for example) used in filename patterns will match a
       leading `.', because IEEE POSIX interpretation 126 requires this.

       The syntax -perm +MODE was deprecated in findutils-4.2.21, in favour of -perm /MODE.  As  of  findutils-4.3.3,  -perm
       /000 now matches all files instead of none.

       Nanosecond-resolution timestamps were implemented in findutils-4.3.3.

       As  of  findutils-4.3.11, the -delete action sets find's exit status to a nonzero value when it fails.  However, find
       will not exit immediately.  Previously, find's exit status was unaffected by the failure of -delete.

       Feature                Added in   Also occurs in
       -newerXY               4.3.3      BSD
       -D                     4.3.1
       -O                     4.3.1
       -readable              4.3.0
       -writable              4.3.0
       -executable            4.3.0
       -regextype             4.2.24
       -exec ... +            4.2.12     POSIX
       -execdir               4.2.12     BSD
       -okdir                 4.2.12
       -samefile              4.2.11
       -H                     4.2.5      POSIX
       -L                     4.2.5      POSIX
       -P                     4.2.5      BSD
       -delete                4.2.3
       -quit                  4.2.3
       -d                     4.2.3      BSD
       -wholename             4.2.0
       -iwholename            4.2.0

       -ignore_readdir_race   4.2.0
       -fls                   4.0
       -ilname                3.8
       -iname                 3.8
       -ipath                 3.8
       -iregex                3.8

NON-BUGS
       $ find . -name *.c -print
       find: paths must precede expression
       Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-Olevel] [-D help|tree|search|stat|rates|opt|exec] [path...] [expression]

       This happens because *.c has been expanded by the shell resulting in find actually  receiving  a  command  line  like
       this:

       find . -name bigram.c code.c frcode.c locate.c -print

       That  command  is  of  course not going to work.  Instead of doing things this way, you should enclose the pattern in
       quotes or escape the wildcard:
       $ find . -name \*.c -print

BUGS
       There are security problems inherent in the behaviour that the POSIX standard specifies  for  find,  which  therefore
       cannot  be fixed.  For example, the -exec action is inherently insecure, and -execdir should be used instead.  Please
       see Finding Files for more information.

       The environment variable LC_COLLATE has no effect on the -ok action.

       The best way to report a bug is to use the form at  http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils.   The  reason  for
       this  is that you will then be able to track progress in fixing the problem.   Other comments about find(1) and about
       the findutils package in general can be sent to the bug-findutils mailing list.  To join  the  list,  send  email  to
       bug-findutils-request@gnu.org.


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