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linux find 命令精通指南（Linux find command Mastery Guide） The Linux find command is one of the most useful of all Linux commands, and one of the most confusing. Its difficult because its syntax is different from the standard syntax of other Linux commands. However, it is powerful because it allows you to locate files by file name, file type, user, or even time stamp. Using the find command, you can not only find files that have any combination of these attributes, but also perform operations on the files they find. The purpose of this article is to simplify the learning and use of the command by outlining the uses and potential of the find command. At the same time, it will provide a basic guide and reference to some of the most powerful but confusing aspects of the find command. [Note: the find version used in this article is the GNU version, so some details may differ from those of other versions of find. ] Basic format Before we start, lets take a look at the basic structure of the find command: Find, start_directory, test, options, criteria_to_match Action_to_perform_on_results In the following command, find will start looking for any extension file called Java in the current directory (in ): Find. -name, *.java. The following is an abbreviated list of the commands found by this command: Find. -name, *.java. ./REGEXPvalidate/src/oracle/otnsamples/plsql/ConnectionManager.java ./REGEXPvalidate/src/oracle/otnsamples/plsql/DBManager.java . [Note: if you run this find command from cut and paste from this article, you may need to replace double quotes () with your own keyboard to get the correct result. ] The following command will perform the same operation. In these two cases, you need to escape the wildcards to make sure that they are passed to the find command and not interpreted by shell. So, put your search string in quotation marks, or put a backslash in front of it: Find. -name \*.java Although all parameters of find are optional, if you do not specify where to star