Find

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Find allows you to find files, e.g.

find files older than ...

To find files in folder that are older than 5 days use

find folder -ctime +5 -exec ls {} \;

find files that have content

find -not -empty -iname "foo*"

find files by content

To find files by content you do not use find, but grep.

See also