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Linux finding files commands

Commands that finds files on the file system are usually executed from within a shell (sh/bash) or through a forking function such as system() or exec().

ls

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• Command with arguments: ls -l [directory or filename]
• Description: Displays attributes of files and directories in the specified location
• Output:
• **Ubuntu:** Show/Hide
  total 429820 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2013-08-23 02:49 bin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2013-08-23 03:18 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-03-05 11:41 cdrom drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4600 2013-11-25 15:43 dev drwxr-xr-x 158 root root 12288 2013-12-04 15:54 etc drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2013-05-02 07:19 home lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2012-03-01 08:11 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-3.2.6 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 16384 2013-08-23 02:50 lib drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2011-03-05 11:40 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2013-08-04 22:31 media drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2012-03-04 19:14 mnt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1045 2012-08-13 23:52 nis drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 2013-08-23 03:02 opt drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 2013-08-23 02:54 pentest dr-xr-xr-x 148 root root 0 2013-11-25 15:36 proc drwx------ 77 root root 4096 2013-12-04 15:58 root -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 440006761 2012-10-01 00:09 root.tgz drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2013-08-23 02:51 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-12-05 16:55 selinux drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2011-05-10 03:42 share drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2013-04-17 21:25 srv drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 0 2013-11-25 15:36 sys drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 4096 2013-12-04 01:00 tmp drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2013-08-23 02:52 usr drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2011-06-08 09:16 var lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2012-03-01 08:11 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-3.2.6

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command

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• Command with arguments: command --help
• Description: Displays files recursively
• Output:
• **OS:** Show/Hide
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