Find all files that ends with the .php extension in the folder /var/www/:
find /var/www/ -type f -name '*.php'
This will give you a list with a lot of files.
So, what? What is next?
Well, you can search for words in those files:
find /var/www/ -type f -name '*.php' | xargs grep 'foobar'
that will give files with file extension .php that has the word ‘foobar’ in it.
find /var/www/ -type f -iname '*.php' | xargs grep 'foobar'
Does the same right? Almost, only that it also search for also files with .PHP (iname means none-case-sensitive)
find /var/www/ -type d -name 'tmp' -exec ls -ald {} ;
will find all the folders under /var/www/ with the name “tmp” and list the information out about these folder.
Here is my output from my server:
find / -type d -name 'tmp' -exec ls -ald {} ;
drwxrwxrwt. 11 root root 4096 Oct 22 21:54 /tmp
drwxrwxrwt. 2 root root 4096 Oct 22 16:33 /var/tmp
drwxrwx–T. 2 root lp 4096 Sep 5 10:28 /var/spool/cups/tmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 9 10:30 /backup/db/tmp
Let us get to something more interesting:
Find all files that has the string rocket or ROCKET in their filename, and move them to the folder /tmp:
find / -type f -iname '*rocket*' -exec mv {} /tmp/ ;