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Old 02-05-2011
Confused with find
Hi ,I am reading and trying examples with find ,but I am little bit confused,
How can I search only in sertain directory,Could you give me some example
Thanks a lot
find . -size +10k
find . -name "name"
# 2  
Old 02-05-2011
You can ask `find' to search in any directory you want

Code:
find . /tmp $HOME -name foo

Look for the file foo in current directory, in /tmp and in $HOME
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Old 02-05-2011
The period after find just means "in the current working directory". You can specify whatever directory to find in such as
Code:
find /var/mobile/test -type f -name *.log

which looks in /var/mobile/test for files ending in .log. Find is pretty easy.
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Old 02-05-2011
Try this:
Code:
find ./ -name "*name*" -size +'10k'

# you can't have two (2) PATHS in your find query, i.e. [ . /tmp ] which is 'space' delimited to the current directory [.] and the [/tmp] directory.
# 5  
Old 02-06-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by AlphaLexman
you can't have two (2) PATHS in your find query
Yes you can. Or nine, even. There's no limit except ARG_MAX on your system.
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