find
GNU find, provided by the sys-apps/findutils package, is a utility to search for files in a directory hierarchy. It is an implementation of the find utility specified by the POSIX standard, the latest version of which is IEEE Std 1003.1-2017.
Installation
USE flags
USE flags for sys-apps/findutils GNU utilities for finding files
nls
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Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities) |
selinux
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!!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur |
static
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!!do not set this during bootstrap!! Causes binaries to be statically linked instead of dynamically |
test
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Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently) |
verify-sig
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Verify upstream signatures on distfiles |
Emerge
The sys-apps/findutils package is part of the @system set, so is installed by default.
root #emerge --ask sys-apps/findutilsUsage
Find all files (-type f) in the current directory and its subdirectories (.) whose name ends in .txt:
user $find . -type f -name '*.txt'Find all directories (-type d) in /tmp and its subdirectories whose name begins with test:
user $find /tmp -type d -name 'test*'Find all files in /home/user/test/ whose name ends in .txt and change their permissions to 700:
user $find /home/user/test -type f -name '*.txt' -exec chmod 700 {} +The {} sequence will be replaced by the name of each file found. The + character designates the end of the command to be executed; an alternative is the ; character, although that typically needs to be escaped in order to prevent it from being interpreted by the shell:
user $find /home/user/test -type f -name '*.txt' -exec chmod 700 {} \;See also
- The GNU find(1) man page