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

• 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'}}