tldr/common/find.md

find

Find files under the given directory tree, recursively

• find files by extension

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

• run a command for each file
• use {} within the command to access the filename

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

• 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 +120k -iname {{'*.dOC'}} find {{root_path}} -size -100M -iname {{'*.moV'}} find {{root_path}} -size -1.2T -size +800G -iname {{'*.TaR.gZ'}}