Search for a file from terminal in Linux

To day I just came across a situation in which I have to search for a file/ folder but i don't know the path and full name. So, in these situations geenrally we go with search. But what if you have only terminal. I experimented this in CentOS 4.4 (Linux) and got perfect results. Command is as below.

Find all files with something in their name

find . -name "*.txt"

Find all files that belong to a certain user

find . -user ravi

Find only directories, files, links, or sockets

find . -type d

Find things over a megabyte in size

find ~/Movies/ -size +1024M

Find all files in my directory with open permissions

find ~ -perm 777

Combinations are also accepted.




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