Conclusion

As you can tell, you can do a lot with find. There are still plenty of things that find can do, so you really should look at man find or read several of the excellent tutorials available on the World Wide Web that cover the more arcaneyet usefulaspects of the command. You can use find to search for and list files and folders using an amazing variety of options. It really becomes invaluable, however, when you use the -exec option to run commands on the discovered files, or when you pipe the output to other commands. This is one of the greatest commands available to you on your Linux box, so start using it!