The find command in UNIX is a command line utility for walking a file hierarchy. It can be used to find files and directories and perform subsequent operations on them. It supports searching by file, folder, name, creation date, modification date, owner and permissions.

What does find do in Linux?

The Linux Find Command is one of the most important and frequently used command command-line utility in Unix-like operating systems. Find command is used to search and locate the list of files and directories based on conditions you specify for files that match the arguments.

What is difference between find and locate in Linux?

find searches in the real system. Is slower but always up-to-date and has more options (size, modification time,…) locate uses a previously built database (command updatedb ). Is much faster, but uses an ‘older’ database and searches only names or parts of them.