Search for specific filetypes?

[Spooky]

I'm not Linux guru, so some of the simplest things sometimes escapes me. What I want to know is how do you search for specific file types on your server (like, for example, mp3 files). I want to make sure that certain things are not being upload to the server by my clients.

[Dave M]

That's actually very easy to do. Just login via SSH to your server and type in the following command:

locate *.mp3

That will search for all files with the .mp3 extension. You can modify that to search other file types as well.

[Amelia]

If locate does not work you can use:

find /directorypath -name '*.mp3'

You will need to replace directorypath with the actauly directory like /home