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35 Practical Examples of Linux Find Command

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Ravi Saive
Nov 16, 2015

The Linux Find Command is one of the most important and much used command in Linux systems. Find command used to search and locate list of files and directories based on conditions you specify for files that match the arguments. Find can be used in variety of conditions like you can find files by permissions, users, groups, file type, date, size and other possible criteria.

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