# find

> Find files under the given directory tree, recursively

- find files by extension

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

- run a command for each file
- use {} within the command to access the filename

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

- find files modified since a certain time

`find {{root_path}} -name {{'*.py'}} -mtime {{-1d}}`

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

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