tldr/common/find.md

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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}}