Find
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Revision as of 08:36, 19 October 2012 by imported>ThorstenStaerk (find files newer/older than...)
Find allows you to find files, e.g.
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find by time
find files older than...
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.
find files newer than...
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 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.
Do something with the file
find . -name '*.mp3' -exec echo "Do something with the file" {} \;