ls -l /etc/system* - this shows a long listing of file and directory attributes
drwxr-xr-x - The d at the beginning of this line shows this is a directory.
root@*****# cd /usr
root@*****# ls -l
total 242
drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 1024 Aug 6 2011 4lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Aug 6 2011 5bin -> ./bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 6 2011 X -> ./openwin
drwxr-xr-x 6 root bin 512 Aug 6 2011 X11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Aug 6 2011 X11R6 -> X11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 6 2011 adm -> ../var/adm
drwxr-xr-x 2 radmin reuters 512 Aug 6 2011 agent
drwxr-xr-x 11 root bin 512 Aug 6 2011 apache
drwxr-xr-x 8 root bin 512 Aug 6 2011 apache2
drwxr-xr-x 8 root bin 512 Aug 6 2011 appserver
drwx------ 8 root bin 512 Aug 6 2011 aset
drwxr-xr-x 4 root bin 18432 Oct 16 09:04 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root bin 512 Aug 6 2011 ccs
drwxr-xr-x 18 root bin 512 Aug 6 2011 demo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Aug 6 2011 dict -> ./share/lib/dict
drwxr-xr-x 10 root bin 512 Aug 6 2011 dt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 512 Aug 6 2011 games
find command:
# find / -name "*.pdf"
.pdf - is the sample file that you are currently looking for.
# find / -name core
core - is the sample file that you are currently looking for.
# find / -name core -atime +10 -exec rm {} \;
It searches the system looking for core files that haven't been accessed for at least 10 days and once it finds one, it will remove it.
