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find

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Find files or directories under a directory tree, recursively. See also: `fd`.

Examples (8)

Find files by extension

find path/to/directory -name '*.ext'

Find files matching multiple path/name patterns

find path/to/directory -path '*/path/*/*.ext' -or -name '*pattern*'

Find directories matching a given name, in case-insensitive mode

find path/to/directory -type d -iname '*lib*'

Find files matching a given pattern, excluding specific paths

find path/to/directory -name '*.py' -not -path '*/site-packages/*'

Find files matching a given size range, limiting the recursive depth to "1"

find path/to/directory -maxdepth 1 -size +500k -size -10M

Run a command for each file (use `{}` within the command to access the filename)

find path/to/directory -name '*.ext' -exec wc -l {} \;

Find all files modified today and pass the results to a single command as arguments

find path/to/directory -daystart -mtime -1 -exec tar -cvf archive.tar {} \+

Search for either empty files or directories and delete them verbosely

find path/to/directory -type f|d -empty -delete -print