Byconnecting to hosting via SSH, you can search for files and directories using the commands below.
In commands, instead of a dot .
after find
you can specify the path to a specific directory within which you want to search.
To search all files and directories by name (case insensitive) in the current directory and all its subdirectories, run the command:
find . -iname name
To search all files by extension (case insensitive) in the current directory and all of its subdirectories, run the command:
find . -iname '*.php'
To search for all files larger than 1000KB in the current directory and all its subdirectories, run the command:
find . -size +1000k
To search for all files less than 500B in size in the current directory and all its subdirectories, run the command:
find . -size -500b
To search for all files and directories modified in the last 24 hours in the current directory and all its subdirectories, run the command:
find . -mtime 1
To search for all files and directories modified in the last 15 minutes in the current directory and all its subdirectories, run the command:
find . -mmin 15
To search all files and directories modified 5 to 10 days ago in the current directory and all its subdirectories, run the command:
find . -mtime 5 -mtime -10 -daystart
To search for all files with the extension env
, php
, xml
, yml
or ini
containing the specified line fragment in the current directory and all its subdirectories, run the command:
find ./ -type f -regex ".*\.\(env\|php\|xml\|yml\|ini\)" -exec grep -i -H "fragment_strings" {} \;
You can recursively search all files in all directories like this:
grep -rn "fragment_strings" ~/