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. |
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