When you run the find command on the root directory of a system you may want to exclude all network filesystems and confine your search to only your local machine. The benefits of this are obvious as it will save you a great amount of time especially if the mounted filesystem is very large.
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The find command allows you to recursively search and locate files on your system based on specific criteria. You can search by name, owner, group, type, permissions, date, as well as many others.
The find command uses the following format:

find [search_path(s)] [search_criteria]

The following is the most basic way to run the find command. It will list [...]