Linux and Unix Shell Programming

2.1. find options

There are many options or expressions you can use with find, and each option is prefixed with a hyphen ‘-’. Let’s first go over the main options before we do any examples.

-name	Find files by filename.
-perm	Find files with different access or permission bits on a file.
-prune	Use this option to stop find hitting the current dirrectory name specified; however, if you use the -depth option, then prune is ignored.
-user	Find files by user ownership.
-group	Find files that are a member of a certain group.
-mtime -n +n	Find files that were accessed or modified less ‘-’ than or more ‘+’ than x days ago. There is also an atime and ctime option with find, but they all do practically the same thing, so we’ll just look at mtime.