tldr/pages/common/find.md

# find

> Find files or directories under the given directory tree, recursively.

- Find files by extension:

`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}'`

- Find files by matching multiple patterns:

`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*pattern_1*}}' -or -name '{{*pattern_2*}}'`

- Find directories matching a given name:

`find {{root_path}} -type d -name {{*lib*}}`

- Find files matching path pattern:

`find {{root_path}} -path '{{**/lib/**/*.ext}}'`

- Run a command for each file, use {} within the command to access the filename:

`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}' -exec {{wc -l {} }}\;`

- Find files modified in the last 24-hour period:

`find {{root_path}} -mtime {{-1}}`

- Find files using case insensitive name matching, of a certain size:

`find {{root_path}} -size {{+500k}} -size {{-10M}} -iname '{{*.TaR.gZ}}'`

- Delete files by name, older than 180 days:

`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}' -mtime {{+180}} -delete`

- Find files matching a given pattern, while excluding specific paths:

`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.py}}' -not -path '{{*/site-packages/*}}'`