tldr/pages/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'}}

  • Find files matching path pattern:

find {{root_path}} -path {{'**/lib/**/*.py'}}

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

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

  • 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'}}

  • Delete files by name, older than a certain number of days:

find {{root_path}} -name {{'*.py'}} -mtime {{-180d}} -delete

  • Find empty files or directories:

find {{root_path}} -empty

  • Find files matching more than one search criteria:

find {{root_path}} -name {{'*.py'}} -or -name {{'*.r}}