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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 {{'*.py'}}`
- Find files matching path pattern:
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`find {{root_path}} -path {{'**/lib/**/*.py'}}`
- Run a command for each file, use {} within the command to access the filename:
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`find {{root_path}} -name {{'*.py'}} -exec {{wc -l {} }}\;`
- Find files modified since a certain time:
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`find {{root_path}} -name {{'*.py'}} -mtime {{-1d}}`
- Find files using case insensitive name matching, of a certain size:
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`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 {{'*.py'}} -mtime {{-180d}} -delete`