Find

Find allows you to find files, e.g.

find by time

find files older than ...

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

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

file modification

To find files whose content has been modified 1 days ago or earlier use

find . -mtime -1

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

• find's man page