That argument and anyįollowing arguments are taken to be the expression describing what is to be searched for. Command-line argumentsįollowing these are taken to be names of files or directories to be examined, up to theįirst argument that begins with `-', or the argument `(' or `!'. The -H, -L and -P options control the treatment of symbolic links. That document also includes a lot more detail andĭiscussion than this manual page, so you may find it a more useful source of information. 'Security Considerations' chapter of the findutils documentation, which is called Finding Files and comes with findutils. If you are using find in an environment where security is important (for example if youĪre using it to search directories that are writable by other users), you should read the If no starting-point is specified, `.' is assumed. (the left hand side is false for and operations, true for or), at which point find moves Rooted at each given starting-point by evaluating the given expression from left to right,Īccording to the rules of precedence (see section OPERATORS), until the outcome is known This manual page documents the GNU version of find. Provided by: findutils_4.6.0+git+20160126-2_amd64įind - search for files in a directory hierarchy

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