Task 2: Be more specific
- Find all files whose name ends with “.xml”
A: find / -type f -name “*.xml”
- Find all files in the /home directory (recursive) whose name is “user.txt” (case insensitive)
A: find /home -type f -iname “user.txt”
- Find all directories whose name contains the word “exploits”
A: find / -type d -name “*exploit*”
Task 3: Know exactly what you’re looking for
- Find all files owned by the user “kittycat”
A: find / -type f -user kittycat
- Find all files that are exactly 150 bytes in size
A: find / -type f -size n150c
- Find all files in the /home directory (recursive) with size less than 2 KiB’s and extension “.txt”
A: find /home -type d -size -n2k -name “*.txt”
- Find all files that are exactly readable and writeable by the owner, and readable by everyone else (use octal format)
A: find / -type f -perm 644
- Find all files that are only readable by anyone (use octal format)
A: find / -type f -perm /444
- Find all files with write permission for the group “others”, regardless of any other permissions, with extension “.sh” (use symbolic format)
A: find / -type f -perm -o=w -name “*.sh”
- Find all files in the /usr/bin directory (recursive) that are owned by root and have at least the SUID permission (use symbolic format)
A: find /usr/bin -type f -user root -perm -u=s
- Find all files that were not accessed in the last 10 days with extension “.png”
A: find / -type f +atime +10 -name “*.png”
- Find all files in the /usr/bin directory (recursive) that have been modified within the last 2 hours
A: find /user/bin -type f -mmin -120
