Find Commands

Search files

find ./ -type f -name "*.log"

Find files with user and group

find ./ -user USER
find ./ -group GROUP

Find files with same reference

find -L /bin -samefile /bin/sh

Find files by date

touch --date "2020-12-31" /tmp/foo
touch --date "2024-02-29 23:59:59" /tmp/foo

find ./ -newer /tmp/foo

find . -anewer /tmp/foo
find . -newermt 2024-06-01

Find 7 days older files in current directory

find ./ -maxdepth 1 -mtime +7 -name "myfile-*"

Find files with modified time

find ./ -type f -mmin -7 # minutes
find ./ -type f -mtime -7 # days

Find files older than 30 days and remove

find . -mtime +30 | xargs rm

Execute command for one file

find ./ -type d -exec cat {} \;

Execute command for all

find ./ -type f -exec cat {} +

Update file permission

find ./ -type l -exec ls -l {} \;
find ./ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find ./ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find ./ -exec chown USER:GROUP {} \;

Count number of lines from similar files

find ./ -name "*.sh" -exec wc -l {} \; 2>/dev/null | sed 's/ .*//g' | jq -s 'add'

Copy files selectively

find ./ \( -wholename "*.java" -or -wholename "*.cpp" \) -exec sh -c "ls -l {}; cp --parents {} ~/targetdir/" \;