tldr/pages/common/find.md

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