\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. Would be lovely. \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} % For underlining links % Most of the following are not required for the majority % of cheat sheets but are needed for some symbol support. \usepackage{amsmath} % Symbols \usepackage{MnSymbol} % Symbols \usepackage{wasysym} % Symbols %\usepackage[english,german,french,spanish,italian]{babel} % Languages % Document Info \author{Arest (arest)} \pdfinfo{ /Title (find.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (Arest (arest)) /Subject (find Cheat Sheet) } % Lengths and widths \addtolength{\textwidth}{6cm} \addtolength{\textheight}{-1cm} \addtolength{\hoffset}{-3cm} \addtolength{\voffset}{-2cm} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.2cm} % Space between columns \setlength{\headsep}{-12pt} % Reduce space between header and content \setlength{\headheight}{85pt} % If less, LaTeX automatically increases it \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove footer line \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header line \renewcommand{\seqinsert}{\ifmmode\allowbreak\else\-\fi} % Hyphens in seqsplit % This two commands together give roughly % the right line height in the tables \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} \onehalfspacing % Commands \newcommand{\SetRowColor}[1]{\noalign{\gdef\RowColorName{#1}}\rowcolor{\RowColorName}} % Shortcut for row colour \newcommand{\mymulticolumn}[3]{\multicolumn{#1}{>{\columncolor{\RowColorName}}#2}{#3}} % For coloured multi-cols \newcolumntype{x}[1]{>{\raggedright}p{#1}} % New column types for ragged-right paragraph columns \newcommand{\tn}{\tabularnewline} % Required as custom column type in use % Font and Colours \definecolor{HeadBackground}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{FootBackground}{HTML}{666666} \definecolor{TextColor}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{DarkBackground}{HTML}{065406} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F7F9F7} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \color{TextColor} % Header and Footer \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{} % Set header to blank \fancyfoot{} % Set footer to blank \fancyhead[L]{ \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{C} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \vspace{-7pt} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\noindent \hspace*{-6pt}\includegraphics[width=5.8cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/images/cheatography_logo.pdf}} } \end{tabulary} \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{11cm}{L} \vspace{-2pt}\large{\bf{\textcolor{DarkBackground}{\textrm{find Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{Arest (arest)} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/7517/cs/38712/}}} \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \fancyfoot[L]{ \footnotesize \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{LL} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheatographer}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Arest (arest) \\ \uline{cheatography.com/arest} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Not Yet Published.\\ Updated 15th May, 2023.\\ Page {\thepage} of \pageref{LastPage}. \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sponsor}} \\ \SetRowColor{white} \vspace{-5pt} %\includegraphics[width=48px,height=48px]{dave.jpeg} Measure your website readability!\\ www.readability-score.com \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \begin{document} \raggedright \raggedcolumns % Set font size to small. Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{2} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{4 cm} x{4 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Basic commands}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} How to find files containing a specific word in its name? & find /etc -name "{\emph{mail}}" \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} How to find all the files greater than certain size? & find / -type f -size +100M \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} How to find files that are not modified in the last x number of days? & find . -mtime +60 \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} How to find files that are modified in the last x number of days? & find . –mtime -2 \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 4) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} How to delete all the archive files with extension *.tar.gz and greater than 100MB? & find / -type f -name *.tar.gz -size +100M -exec ls -l \{\} \textbackslash{}; \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 5) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} & find / -type f -name *.tar.gz -size +100M -exec rm -f \{\} \textbackslash{}; \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} How to archive all the files that are not modified in the last x number of days? & find /home/jsmith -type f -mtime +60 | xargs tar -cvf /tmp/`date \seqsplit{'+\%d\%m\%Y'\_archive}.tar` \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 5) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} Find files larger than 10MB in the current directory downwards… & find . -size +10000000c -ls \tn % Row Count 31 (+ 4) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{4 cm} x{4 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Basic commands (cont)}} \tn % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Find files larger than 100MB… & find . -size +100000000c -ls \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} Find files last modified over 30days ago… & find . -type f -mtime 30 -ls \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Find files last modified over 365days ago… & find . -type f -mtime 365 -ls \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{4 cm} x{4 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Search by date/time}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} How to find files that are not modified in the last x number of days? & find . -mtime +60 \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} How to find files that are modified in the last x number of days? & find . –mtime -2 \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} How to archive all the files that are not modified in the last x number of days? & find /home/jsmith -type f -mtime +60 | xargs tar -cvf /tmp/`date \seqsplit{'+\%d\%m\%Y'\_archive}.tar` \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 5) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Find files last modified over 30days ago… & find . -type f -mtime 30 -ls \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Find files last accessed over 30days ago… & find . -type f -atime 30 -ls \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} If the file is being updated at the current time then we can use find to find files modified in the last day… & find . -type f -mtime -1 -ls \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 6) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \#Find files whose content got updated within last 1 hour & find . -mmin -60 \tn % Row Count 28 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} finds all the files (under root file system /) that got updated within the last 24 hours (1 day). & find / -mtime -1 \tn % Row Count 33 (+ 5) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{4 cm} x{4 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Search by date/time (cont)}} \tn % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Find files which got accessed before 1 hour & find -amin -60 \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} Find files which got changed exactly before 1 hour & find . -cmin -60 \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{4 cm} x{4 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Find by size}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Find files bigger than the given size & find / -type f -size +100M \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Find files larger than 10MB in the current directory downwards… & find . -type f -size +10M -ls \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} , in order, the largest sub-directories (units are in Kb)… & du -sk * | sort -n \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} How to find all the files greater than certain size? & find / -type f -size +100M \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Find files smaller than the given size & find / -type f -size -100M \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Find files that matches the exact given size & find / -type f -size 100M \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} How to delete all the archive files with extension *.tar.gz and greater than 100MB? & find / -type f -name *.tar.gz -size +100M -exec ls -l \{\} \textbackslash{}; \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 5) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} & find / -type f -name *.tar.gz -size +100M -exec rm -f \{\} \textbackslash{}; \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 3) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} The following command will display the top 5 largest file in the current directory and its subdirectory. This may take a while to execute depending on the total number of files the command has to process. & find . -type f -exec ls -s \{\} \textbackslash{}; | sort -n -r | head -5 \tn % Row Count 36 (+ 11) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{4 cm} x{4 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Find by size (cont)}} \tn % Row 9 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Technique is same as finding the bigger files, but the only difference the sort is ascending order. & find . -type f -exec ls -s \{\} \textbackslash{}; | sort -n | head -5 \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 5) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{white} List the smaller files other than the ZERO byte files. & find . -not -empty -type f -exec ls -s \{\} \textbackslash{}; | sort -n | head -5 \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{p{0.8 cm} p{0.8 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Find by permissions}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{} \tn % Row Count 0 (+ 0) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}