find

Find by name

find . -iname "{pattern}" -o -iname "{pattern}"

Find by regex

find . -iregex "\..*\.mp3"

Delete files more than {n} days old

find . -iname "{pattern}" -type f -mtime +{n} -delete

Archieve and delete files

find . -iname "{pattern}" -type f -print | xargs tar -czvPf ./{file}.tar.gz --remove-files

Archieve and delete files more than {n} days old

find . -iname "{pattern}" -type f -mtime +{n} -print | xargs tar -czvPf ./{file}.tar.gz --remove-files

Change new lines from DOS to UNIX

find ./ -type f -exec dos2unix {} \;

Find and count

find . -type f -name "*.pdf" | wc -l

Find and delete

find . -type f -name "*.json" -exec rm -f {} \;

Run a command with each found file

find . -exec sh -c 'commands "$1"' sh {} \;

Find files bigger than

find / -size +10M -size -12M -ls

Prevent the ./ at the beginning of each filen ame

find * -maxdepth 0

Append 2>/dev/null at the end of the command to avoid the permission denied message

Execute git status in all the directories in the current directory.

find * -maxdepth 0 -type d -exec echo "-----> {}" \; -exec git -C {} status \;

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