tldr/pages/common/find.md

find

Find files under the given directory tree, recursively.

• Find files by extension:

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

• 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 since a certain time:

find {{root_path}} -name '{{}}' -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 a certain number of days:

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