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 files matching more than one search criteria:

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

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

`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.py}}' -not -path '{{*/site-packages/*}}'`
Add doc for find(1) 2013-12-11 14:23:59 +04:00			`# find`

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find: quotes outside tokens; generic extension (#1160) The generic extension is to conform to our contribution guidelines: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#token-syntax 2016-11-26 18:51:12 +03:00			`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}'`
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Formatted all pages according to guidelines. 2016-01-07 20:31:27 +03:00			`- Find files matching path pattern:`
find -path option 2015-12-28 21:06:08 +03:00
find: quotes outside tokens; generic extension (#1160) The generic extension is to conform to our contribution guidelines: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#token-syntax 2016-11-26 18:51:12 +03:00			`find {{root_path}} -path '{{/lib//*.ext}}'`
find -path option 2015-12-28 21:06:08 +03:00
Formatted all pages according to guidelines. 2016-01-07 20:31:27 +03:00			`- Run a command for each file, use {} within the command to access the filename:`
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find: quotes outside tokens; generic extension (#1160) The generic extension is to conform to our contribution guidelines: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#token-syntax 2016-11-26 18:51:12 +03:00			`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}' -exec {{wc -l {} }}\;`
Update find.md 2015-12-28 12:43:58 +03:00
Formatted all pages according to guidelines. 2016-01-07 20:31:27 +03:00			`- Find files modified since a certain time:`
Add doc for find(1) 2013-12-11 14:23:59 +04:00
mtime argument (find command) expect numeric value 2017-03-09 21:05:57 +03:00			`find {{root_path}} -name '{{}}' -mtime {{-1}}`
A bunch of new pages: common/: dig, gzip, rm, sort, zfs, zpool linux/: apt-get, shutdown osx/: airport, caffeinate, diskutil, networksetup open, pgrep, qlmanage, say, shutdown, sysctl, system_profiler Edits to existing pages: curl: Added simple download example find: Added iname and size exmaples grep: Edited -c description ps: Added wide lines example ssh: edited -D description, added simple port forwarding example unzip: added list option 2014-02-11 00:36:05 +04:00
Formatted all pages according to guidelines. 2016-01-07 20:31:27 +03:00			`- Find files using case insensitive name matching, of a certain size:`
A bunch of new pages: common/: dig, gzip, rm, sort, zfs, zpool linux/: apt-get, shutdown osx/: airport, caffeinate, diskutil, networksetup open, pgrep, qlmanage, say, shutdown, sysctl, system_profiler Edits to existing pages: curl: Added simple download example find: Added iname and size exmaples grep: Edited -c description ps: Added wide lines example ssh: edited -D description, added simple port forwarding example unzip: added list option 2014-02-11 00:36:05 +04:00
find: quotes outside tokens; generic extension (#1160) The generic extension is to conform to our contribution guidelines: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#token-syntax 2016-11-26 18:51:12 +03:00			`find {{root_path}} -size +500k -size -10MB -iname '{{*.TaR.gZ}}'`
Add find -delete 2015-12-27 08:52:17 +03:00
Formatted all pages according to guidelines. 2016-01-07 20:31:27 +03:00			`- Delete files by name, older than a certain number of days:`
Add find -delete 2015-12-27 08:52:17 +03:00
mtime argument (find command) expect numeric value 2017-03-09 21:05:57 +03:00			`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}' -mtime {{-180}} -delete`
find: added options for multiple search criteria and empty files added path for -empty option 2015-12-30 21:43:58 +03:00
Formatted find page 2016-01-21 15:12:53 +03:00			`- Find files matching more than one search criteria:`
find: added options for multiple search criteria and empty files added path for -empty option 2015-12-30 21:43:58 +03:00
find: quotes outside tokens; generic extension (#1160) The generic extension is to conform to our contribution guidelines: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#token-syntax 2016-11-26 18:51:12 +03:00			`find {{root_path}} -name '{{.py}}' -or -name '{{.r}}'`
find: ignore given directory (#1289) * find path while excluding certain directory * delete the `find {{root_path}} -empty` command to meet the demand of 8 commands at most * tokenize the demo parameter 2017-03-10 17:48:29 +03:00
find: slightly reword the -not -path example 2017-04-26 00:50:51 +03:00			`- Find files matching a given pattern, while excluding specific paths:`
find: ignore given directory (#1289) * find path while excluding certain directory * delete the `find {{root_path}} -empty` command to meet the demand of 8 commands at most * tokenize the demo parameter 2017-03-10 17:48:29 +03:00
			`find {{root_path}} -name '{{.py}}' -not -path '{{/site-packages/*}}'`