FIND(1) — HP-UX
NAME
find − find files
SYNOPSIS
find path-name-list expression
DESCRIPTION
Find recursively descends the directory hierarchy for each path name in the path-name-list (i.e., one or more path names) seeking files that match a boolean expression written in the primaries given below. In the descriptions, the argument n is used as a decimal integer where +n means more than n, −n means less than n and n means exactly n.
−name file True if file matches the current file name. Normal shell argument syntax may be used if escaped (watch out for [, ? and ∗).
−perm onum True if the file permission flags exactly match the octal number onum (see chmod(1)). If onum is prefixed by a minus sign, more flag bits (017777, see stat(2)) become significant and the flags are compared:
(flags&onum)==onum
−type c True if the type of the file is c, where c is b, c, d, p, n, or f for block special file, character special file, directory, fifo (a.k.a named pipe), network special file, or plain file respectively.
−links n True if the file has n links.
−user uname True if the file belongs to the user uname. If uname is numeric and does not appear as a login name in the /etc/passwd file, it is taken as a user ID.
−group gname True if the file belongs to the group gname. If gname is numeric and does not appear in the /etc/group file, it is taken as a group ID.
−size n[c] True if the file is n blocks long. If n is followed by a c, the size is in characters.
−atime n True if the file has been accessed in n days. The access time of directories in path-name-list is changed by find itself.
−mtime n True if the file has been modified in n days.
−ctime n True if the file has been changed in n days.
−exec cmd True if the executed cmd returns a zero value as exit status. The end of cmd must be punctuated by an escaped semicolon. A command argument {} is replaced by the current path name.
−ok cmd Like −exec except that the generated command line is printed with a question mark first, and is executed only if the user responds by typing y.
−print Always true; causes the current path name to be printed.
−cpio device Always true; write the current file on device in cpio(4) format (5120-byte records).
−newer file True if the current file has been modified more recently than the argument file.
−depth Always true; causes descent of the directory hierarchy to be done so that all entries in a directory are acted on before the directory itself. This can be useful when find is used with cpio(1) to transfer files that are contained in directories without write permission.
( expression ) True if the parenthesized expression is true (parentheses are special to the shell and must be escaped).
−inum n True if the file has inode number n.
−ncpio Same as −cpio but adds the -c option to cpio.
The primaries may be combined using the following operators (in order of decreasing precedence):
1) The negation of a primary (! is the unary not operator).
2) Concatenation of primaries (the and operation is implied by the juxtaposition of two primaries).
3) Alternation of primaries (−o is the or operator).
The -type option also recognizes n as a test for a network special file.
EXAMPLE
To remove all files named a.out or ∗.o that have not been accessed for a week:
find / \( −name a.out −o −name ´∗.o´ \) −atime +7 −exec rm {} \;
Note that the spaces delimiting the escaped parentheses are required.
FILES
| /etc/group |
| /etc/passwd |
SEE ALSO
cpio(1), sh(1), test(1), stat(2), cpio(4), fs(4).
INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT
8- and 16-bit data, 8-bit filenames.
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