Question

Which symbol is used with find command for specifying arguments?

(a) +

(b) –

(c) + and –

(d) |

This question was posed to me in a national level competition.

The query is from Locating Files: find Command in portion Customizing the Environment & More File Attributes of Unix

Answer 1

Right option is (c) + and –

The explanation is: find command searches for a given file according to the arguments specified in the command line. Each argument is preceded by a – (hyphen). For example, to display all files in the current directory having .c extension, use the following command: