Working with Linux, I spend a lot of time searching for files. Sometimes I don’t know the name of the file I’m looking for, I just know that it’s big. Or maybe I’m looking for any file with 777 permissions. That’s where find comes in.

find can virtually find anything on your computer and comes with a lot of options. This tutorial will introduce a basic use of it and show how you can search your filesystem for file names matching a name pattern.

Full HOWTO: http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-find-files-on-your-computer-with-find