tldr/pages/common/find.md

# find

> Find files or directories under the given directory tree, recursively.

- Find files by extension:

`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}'`

- Find files by matching multiple patterns:

`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*pattern_1*}}' -or -name '{{*pattern_2*}}'`

- Find directories matching a given name:

`find {{root_path}} -type d -name {{*lib*}}`

- Find files matching path pattern:

`find {{root_path}} -path '{{**/lib/**/*.ext}}'`

- Run a command for each file, use {} within the command to access the filename:

`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}' -exec {{wc -l {} }}\;`

- Find files modified in the last 24-hour period:

`find {{root_path}} -mtime {{-1}}`

- Find files using case insensitive name matching, of a certain size:

`find {{root_path}} -size {{+500k}} -size {{-10M}} -iname '{{*.TaR.gZ}}'`

- Delete files by name, older than 180 days:

`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}' -mtime {{+180}} -delete`

- Find files matching a given pattern, while excluding specific paths:

`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.py}}' -not -path '{{*/site-packages/*}}'`
Add doc for find(1) 2013-12-11 10:23:59 +00:00			`# find`

find: reoder example 2018-08-26 05:49:15 +01:00			`> Find files or directories under the given directory tree, recursively.`
Add doc for find(1) 2013-12-11 10:23:59 +00:00
Formatted all pages according to guidelines. 2016-01-07 17:31:27 +00:00			`- Find files by extension:`
Add doc for find(1) 2013-12-11 10:23:59 +00:00
find: quotes outside tokens; generic extension (#1160) The generic extension is to conform to our contribution guidelines: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#token-syntax 2016-11-26 15:51:12 +00:00			`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}'`
Add doc for find(1) 2013-12-11 10:23:59 +00:00
find: add searching multiple patterns simultaneously (#2589) 2018-11-15 21:33:41 +00:00			`- Find files by matching multiple patterns:`

			`find {{root_path}} -name '{{pattern_1}}' -or -name '{{pattern_2}}'`

find: reoder example 2018-08-26 05:49:15 +01:00			`- Find directories matching a given name:`

			`find {{root_path}} -type d -name {{lib}}`

Formatted all pages according to guidelines. 2016-01-07 17:31:27 +00:00			`- Find files matching path pattern:`
find -path option 2015-12-28 18:06:08 +00:00
find: quotes outside tokens; generic extension (#1160) The generic extension is to conform to our contribution guidelines: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#token-syntax 2016-11-26 15:51:12 +00:00			`find {{root_path}} -path '{{/lib//*.ext}}'`
find -path option 2015-12-28 18:06:08 +00:00
Formatted all pages according to guidelines. 2016-01-07 17:31:27 +00:00			`- Run a command for each file, use {} within the command to access the filename:`
Update find.md 2015-12-28 09:43:58 +00:00
find: quotes outside tokens; generic extension (#1160) The generic extension is to conform to our contribution guidelines: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#token-syntax 2016-11-26 15:51:12 +00:00			`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}' -exec {{wc -l {} }}\;`
Update find.md 2015-12-28 09:43:58 +00:00
find: improve -mtime example Make the description clearer and more specific to the given `-1` parameter. Remove unnecessary `-name '{{}}'` from example. 2017-10-05 22:23:30 +01:00			`- Find files modified in the last 24-hour period:`
Add doc for find(1) 2013-12-11 10:23:59 +00:00
find: improve -mtime example Make the description clearer and more specific to the given `-1` parameter. Remove unnecessary `-name '{{}}'` from example. 2017-10-05 22:23:30 +01:00			`find {{root_path}} -mtime {{-1}}`
A bunch of new pages: common/: dig, gzip, rm, sort, zfs, zpool linux/: apt-get, shutdown osx/: airport, caffeinate, diskutil, networksetup open, pgrep, qlmanage, say, shutdown, sysctl, system_profiler Edits to existing pages: curl: Added simple download example find: Added iname and size exmaples grep: Edited -c description ps: Added wide lines example ssh: edited -D description, added simple port forwarding example unzip: added list option 2014-02-10 20:36:05 +00:00
Formatted all pages according to guidelines. 2016-01-07 17:31:27 +00:00			`- Find files using case insensitive name matching, of a certain size:`
A bunch of new pages: common/: dig, gzip, rm, sort, zfs, zpool linux/: apt-get, shutdown osx/: airport, caffeinate, diskutil, networksetup open, pgrep, qlmanage, say, shutdown, sysctl, system_profiler Edits to existing pages: curl: Added simple download example find: Added iname and size exmaples grep: Edited -c description ps: Added wide lines example ssh: edited -D description, added simple port forwarding example unzip: added list option 2014-02-10 20:36:05 +00:00
fix argument 2018-04-26 15:50:21 +01:00			`find {{root_path}} -size {{+500k}} -size {{-10M}} -iname '{{*.TaR.gZ}}'`
Add find -delete 2015-12-27 05:52:17 +00:00
find: add unit for mtime Clarifying that mtime stands for no. of days 2017-12-29 07:48:57 +00:00			`- Delete files by name, older than 180 days:`
Add find -delete 2015-12-27 05:52:17 +00:00
find: fix -mtime example (#1625) 2017-11-08 19:39:07 +00:00			`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}' -mtime {{+180}} -delete`
find: added options for multiple search criteria and empty files added path for -empty option 2015-12-30 18:43:58 +00:00
find: slightly reword the -not -path example 2017-04-25 22:50:51 +01:00			`- Find files matching a given pattern, while excluding specific paths:`
find: ignore given directory (#1289) * find path while excluding certain directory * delete the `find {{root_path}} -empty` command to meet the demand of 8 commands at most * tokenize the demo parameter 2017-03-10 14:48:29 +00:00
			`find {{root_path}} -name '{{.py}}' -not -path '{{/site-packages/*}}'`