Revision as of 08:36, 19 October 2012

Find allows you to find files, e.g.

find by time

To find files in folder that have been changed more than 1 day ago use

find folder -ctime 1

To find out how old a file is, use the command stat.

To find files in folder that have been changed less than 1 day ago use

find folder -ctime -1

To find out how old a file is, use the command stat.

find -not -empty -iname "foo*"

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

find . -name '*.mp3' -exec echo "Do something with the file" {} \;

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 = find by time =
-== find files older than ... ==
+== find files older than... ==
-To find files in ''folder'' that are older than ''5'' days use
+To find files in ''folder'' that have been changed more than ''1'' day ago use
-  find ''folder'' -ctime +''5'' -exec ls {} \;
+  find ''folder'' -ctime 1
-To find how old a file is, use the [[command]] [[stat]].
+To find out how old a file is, use the [[command]] [[stat]].
-== file modification ==
+== find files newer than... ==
-To find files whose content has been modified ''1'' days or shorter ago use
+To find files in ''folder'' that have been changed less than ''1'' day ago use
-  find . -mtime -1
+  find ''folder'' -ctime -1
-To find files whose content has been modified ''1'' days or longer ago use
+To find out how old a file is, use the [[command]] [[stat]].
- find . -mtime +1
 = find files that have content =