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Finds all the log* files recursively in /myDir that are more than 7 days older and compresses them.
find /myDir -name "log*" -ctime +7 -exec bzip2 -zv {} \;
Find all Makefile's in the current directory tree
find -type f -name "Makefile"
Find all Makefile's in the current directory tree and look for line 235 in each of them
find . -name Makefile -print0 | xargs -0 grep -nH $ | grep :235:
find all the mp3 files in the current folder and move them to another folder
find . -name "*.mp3" -exec mv {} "/Users/sir/Music//iTunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Add to iTunes.localized/" \;
find all the mp3 files in the entire file system whose size is bigger than 10MB
find / -type f -name *.mp3 -size +10M -exec rm {} \;
find all the mp3 files in the file system
find / -iname "*.mp3" -print
Find all MP3 files in the home directory tree that were modified in the last 24 hours
find ~ -type f -mtime 0 -iname '*.mp3'
find all the mp3 files in the home folder which have been modified today
find ~ -type f -mtime 0 -iname '*.mp3'
Find all MP3s in the /home directory tree
find /home -type f -name '*.mp3'
Find all mysong.ogg files/directories under your home directory
find $HOME -name 'mysong.ogg'
find all the non compressed files in the current directory and compress them.
find . \! -name "*.Z" -exec compress -f {} \;
find all the normal files in the home directory which have been accesed in the last 30 days with the size greater than or equal to 100k.
find $HOME -type f -atime +30 -size 100k
Find all of the character devices on the system
find / -type c
find all of the executable files on your computer
find / -executable
Find all of jzb's files
find -user jzb
Find all OGG files in the home directory larger than 20 megabytes
find $HOME -iname '*.ogg' -size +20M
Find all OGG files in the home directory that are at most 20 megabytes in size
find $HOME -iname '*.ogg' ! -size +20M
Find all or single file called FindCommandExamples.txt under / directory of owner root
find / -user root -name FindCommandExamples.txt
Find all or single file called tecmint.txt under the / directory of owner root
find / -user root -name tecmint.txt
Find all orm* files/directories under current directory
find . -name 'orm*'
Find all orm.* files/directories under current directory
find . -name "orm.*"
find all the patch files in current folder and copy them to separate folder patches
find -name '*.patch' -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} cp {} patches/
Find all pdf files excluding *_signed.pdf files under /some/dir with null character as the delimiter
find /some/dir -name "*.pdf" ! -name "*_signed.pdf" -print0
find all pdf files in the current folder
find . -name “*.pdf” -print
Find all pdf files under /dir/containing/unsigned with null character as the delimiter
find /dir/containing/unsigned -name '*.pdf' -print0
find all PDFs owned by user “seamstress”
find / -user seamstress -iname “*.pdf”
find all the perl files in the current folder
find . -type f -name "*.pl"
find all the perl files in the current folder, print0 is used to handle files with new lines in their names or only spaces
find . -type f -name "*.pl" -print0
Find all Perl source code files
find . -name "*.pl"
Find all php files in the current directory
find . -type f -name "*.php"
Find all PHP files in the current directory recursively
find . -name \*.php -type f
Find all PHP files in the current directory recursively and search them for string "$test" with 8 simultaneous processes
find . -name \*.php -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 -P8 grep -Hn '$test'
find all the php files in the current folder
find . -name \*.php
find all the php files in the current folder
find . -name “*.[php|PHP]” -print
find all the php files in the current folder (discards any directory which has an extension of ".php")
find . -name \*.php -type f
find all the php files in current folder and search for multiple patterns in these files
find -name '*.php' -exec grep -li "fincken" {} + | xargs grep -l "TODO"
find all the php files in current folder and search for multiple patterns in these files and display the file names
find -name '*.php' -exec grep -in "fincken" {} + | grep TODO | cut -d: -f1 | uniq
find all the php files in current folder using regular expressions
find . -regex '.+\.php'
Find all php files that belong to user 'takuya' and have been modified in the last 1 day
find -user takuya -name '*.php' -daystart -mtime -1
Find all PHP files under current directory
find . -type f -name *.php
Find all php files under current directory
find . -type f -name "*.php"
Find all PHP files under current directory that contain only one line
find . -type f -name '*.php' -exec wc -l {} \; | egrep "^\s*1\s"
Find all php files whose name is tecmint.php in a current working directory
find . -type f -name tecmint.php
Find all php files whose name is tecmint.php in the current directory
find . -type f -name tecmint.php
find all the php/javascript files in current folder using regular expressions
find . -regex '.+\.\(php|js\)'
Find all PNG and JPG files and append them to archive `images.tar'
find . \( -iname "*.png" -o -iname "*.jpg" \) -print -exec tar -rf images.tar {} \;
find all png files in the current folder
find . -type f -name '*.png'
find all the png files in the current folder which are present in the pattern list search .txt
find . -name '*.png' | grep -f search.txt
Find all python files (.py files) in $topdir directory tree and search for 'Makefile' in all these folders and display all distinct folders having 'Makefile'
find "$topdir" -name '*.py' -printf '%h\0' | xargs -0 -I {} find {} -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -name Makefile -printf '%h\n' | sort -u
Find all python files under current directory tree, save the list to 'output.txt' and search for 'something' in those files
find . -name '*.py' | tee output.txt | xargs grep 'something'
find all raw images in the current folder and pass them one at a time to the xargs command and enable parallel processing of the files
find . -type f -iname '*.CR2' -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -P 8 -I {}
find all read me files in a folder
find /usr/share/doc -name README
Find all Read Only files
find / -perm /u=r
Find all read only files in /home directory
find /home -type f -perm /u=r
Find all Read Only files in entire file system and show a few lines of output from the beginning
find / -perm /u=r | head
Find all Read Only files in the file system
find / -perm /u=r
find all readme files in a folder
find /usr/share/doc -name README
find all regex ".*/[a-f0-9\-]\{36\}\.jpg" files
find . -regextype sed -regex ".*/[a-f0-9\-]\{36\}\.jpg"
find all regex "./[a-f0-9\-]\{36\}\.jpg" files
find . -regex "./[a-f0-9\-]\{36\}\.jpg"
find all regex '\./[a-f0-9\-]\{36\}\.jpg' files
find . -regex '\./[a-f0-9\-]\{36\}\.jpg'
find all the reguar/normal php files in current directory.
find . -type f -name "*.php"
Find all regular *.css files
find . -type f -name "*.css"
Find all regular .abc files under and below /the/path and rename them prefixing their names with "version_1"
find /the/path -type f -name '*.abc' -execdir rename 's/\.\/(.+)\.abc$/version1_$1.abc/' {} \;
Find all regular .html files in the /var/www directory tree
find /var/www -type f -name "*.html"
Find all regular .mp3 files larger than 10M and delete them
find / -type f -name *.mp3 -size +10M -exec rm {} \;
Find all regular files 1 level down the $dir directory
find $dir -maxdepth 1 -type f
find all regular file and create jw-htmlfiles.tar
find . -type f -name "*html" | xargs tar cvf jw-htmlfiles.tar -
find all regular files then display the number of occurrences of banana without lines not proper end
find . -type f -print0| xargs -0 grep -c banana| grep -v ":0$"
find all regular files exclude .o and exclude *.swp and output line number of soc_attach if it has
find . \( ! -path "./output/*" \) -a \( -type f \) -a \( ! -name '*.o' \) -a \( ! -name '*.swp' \) | xargs grep -n soc_attach
Find all regular files in the "$dir" directory
find $dir -maxdepth 1 -type f
Find all regular files in the "aaa" directory
find aaa/ -maxdepth 1 -type f
Find all the regular files in $DIR directory tree which have not been modified in the last 15 days and delete them
find "$DIR" -type f -mtime +15 -exec rm {} \;
Find all the regular files in $DIR directory tree which have not been modified in the last 450 days and delete them
find $DIR -type f -mtime +450 -exec rm {} \;
find all the normal/regular files in /etc/sysconfig which have been accesses in the last 30 minutes
find /etc/sysconfig -amin -30 -type f
find all the regular/normal files in the /path folder and delete them
find /path -type f -delete
find all the regular/normal files in the /path folder and delete them
find /path -type f -exec rm '{}' \;
find all the regular/normal files in the /path folder and delete them
find /path -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm
Find all regular files in the /path/to/base/dir tree
find /path/to/base/dir -type f
Find all regular files in /usr/bin accessed more than 20 days ago
find /usr/bin -type f -atime +20
Find all regular files in /usr/bin modified less than within the last 10 days
find /usr/bin -type f -mtime -10
find all the regular/normal files in all the directories in the /some/dir and delete them
find /some/dir -type d -exec find {} -type f -delete \;
Find all regular files in and below the home directory that have been modified in the last 90 minutes
find ~ -type f -mmin -90
find all the regular/normal files in the current direcoty which have not been accessed in the last 30 days.
find . -type f -atime +30 -print
Find all regular files in the current director and set their permissions to '644'.
find ./ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find all normal/regular files in the current directory
find . -type f -print
find all the normal/regular files in the current directory
find -type f
Find all regular files in the current directory and its subdirectories.
find . -type f
find all the regular/normal files in the current directory and print them skip searching all the directories in the current folders.
find * -type f -print -o -type d -prune
find all the normal/regular files in the current directory and search for the word mail and display the file names
find . -type f -exec grep -il mail
Find all regular files in the current directory and search them for "example"
find -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs grep -F 'example'
Find all regular files in the current directory tree, except GIT files
find . -name .git -prune -o -type f -print
Find all regular files in the current directory tree ignoring directory ./source/script
find . -path ./source/script -prune -o -type f -print;
Find all regular files in the current directory tree ignoring GIT and SVN directories
find . \( -type d -regex '^.*/\.\(git\|svn\)$' -prune -false \) -o -type f -print0
Find all regular files in the current directory tree last modified between 1 and 3 days ago and list them using find's -ls option
find ./ -daystart -mtime -3 -type f ! -mtime -1 -exec ls -ld {} \;
Find all regular files in the current directory tree last modified between 1 and 3 days ago and list them using format '%TY %p\n'
find ./ -daystart -mtime -3 -type f ! -mtime -1 -printf '%TY %p\n'
Find all regular files in the current directory tree last modified between 1 and 3 days ago and list them using format '%Tc %p\n'
find ./ -daystart -mtime -3 -type f ! -mtime -1 -printf '%Tc %p\n'
Find all regular files in the current directory tree last modified between 1 and 3 days ago and list them using format '%Tm %p\n'
find ./ -daystart -mtime -3 -type f ! -mtime -1 -printf '%Tm %p\n'
Find all regular files in the current directory tree that are not readable by all
find -type f ! -perm -444
Find all regular files in the current directory tree that are not readable by anyone
find . -type f ! -perm -444
Find all regular files in the current directory tree that have been modified within the last 10 minutes
find . –type f -mmin -10