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'}}

  • 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