tldr/pages/common/find.md

find

Find files or directories under the given directory tree, recursively.

• Find files by extension:

find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}'

• Find directories matching a given name:

find {{root_path}} -type d -name {{*lib*}}

• Find files matching path pattern:

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

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

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

• Find files modified in the last 24-hour period:

find {{root_path}} -mtime {{-1}}

• 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 180 days:

find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}' -mtime {{+180}} -delete

• Find files matching a given pattern, while excluding specific paths:

find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.py}}' -not -path '{{*/site-packages/*}}'