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# find
> Find files under the given directory tree, recursively.
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- Find files by extension:
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`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}'`
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- Find files matching path pattern:
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`find {{root_path}} -path '{{**/lib/**/*.ext}}'`
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- Run a command for each file, use {} within the command to access the filename:
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`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}' -exec {{wc -l {} }}\;`
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- Find files modified since a certain time:
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`find {{root_path}} -name '{{}}' -mtime {{-1}}`
- Find files using case insensitive name matching, of a certain size:
`find {{root_path}} -size +500k -size -10MB -iname '{{*.TaR.gZ}}'`
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- Delete files by name, older than a certain number of days:
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`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}' -mtime {{-180}} -delete`
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- Find empty files or directories:
`find {{root_path}} -empty`
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- Find files matching more than one search criteria:
`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.py}}' -or -name '{{*.r}}'`