Finding stuff in linux
ttp://www.wikihow.com/Find-a-File-in-Linux
find / -type f -iname “<file you want to find>”
Examples
find / -type f -iname “libphp5.so”
find / -type d -iname “ibdata1”
find / -type f -iname “*arcconf”
grep -R ‘AllowNoPassword’ /
egrep ‘User’ /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
grep DocumentRoot /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
To find files larger than 100MB, use this command:
find / -type f -size +100000k -exec du -h {} \;
Search within files for specific text:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16956810/how-do-i-find-all-files-containing-specific-text-on-linux
grep –exclude-dir={dir1,dir2,*.dst} -rnw ‘</path/to/somewhere/>’ -e “<pattern/text>”
grep –exclude-dir={/sys} -rnw ‘/etc’ -e “debug.log”
