Linux Advanced search using Find

find is a command-line utility that searches one or more directory trees of a file system, locates files based on some user-specified criteria and applies a user-specified action on each matched file. It can also be use with other Linux/Unix commands to apply further actions on files or directories found.

The find command syntax is; find options starting/path expression Where; - options attribute will control the behavior and optimization method of the find process. - starting/path attribute will define the top level directory where find begins filtering. - expression attribute controls the tests that search the directory hierarchy to produce output.