dtos-dotfiles/org-yeah/tldr.example

 
find
 
Find files or directories under the given directory tree, recursively.
More information: https://manned.org/find.
 
- Find files by extension:
find root_path -name '*.ext'
 
- Find files matching multiple path/name patterns:
find root_path -path '**/path/**/*.ext' -or -name '*pattern*'
 
- Find directories matching a given name, in case-insensitive mode:
find root_path -type d -iname '*lib*'
 
- Find files matching a given pattern, excluding specific paths:
find root_path -name '*.py' -not -path '*/site-packages/*'
 
- Find files matching a given size range:
find root_path -size +500k -size -10M
 
- Run a command for each file (use `{}` within the command to access the filename):
find root_path -name '*.ext' -exec wc -l {} \;
 
- Find files modified in the last 7 days and delete them:
find root_path -daystart -mtime -7 -delete
 
- Find empty (0 byte) files and delete them:
find root_path -type f -empty -delete