Find Techniques

SBN · 04-02-2008, 09:12 PM

Hey guys im trying to use find to search for files that belong to certain user which has a range of file size ex. 10k to 100k. Do you know how to make this possible...

beadyallen · 04-02-2008, 10:28 PM

It's all on the find man page, but the following will work:

Code:

find /dir/path -size +10k -size -100k -user <username>

An -and is implicitly implied. So the above looks for files that are more than 10k AND less than 100k AND owned by the user <username>.

SBN · 04-03-2008, 12:36 AM

oh thank you ive been doing the same but it seems i did some mistake thank you...

SBN · 04-03-2008, 08:21 PM

Hi this doesnt work, its like it wont work if there are 2 -size.

beadyallen · 04-03-2008, 08:38 PM

Strange, it works for me. What version of find are you using? Maybe your version needs '-and' between the arguments. Try:

Code:

find /dir/path -size +10k -and -size -and -100k -and -user <username>

frenchn00b · 04-04-2008, 09:56 AM

when it is too difficult, I use kfind
or wine totalcommander.exe

SBN · 04-05-2008, 12:30 AM

yup the -and works... thank