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tldr/pages/common/find.md
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# find
> Find files under the given directory tree, recursively
- find files by extension
`find {{root_path}} -name {{'*.py'}}`
- run a command for each file
- use {} within the command to access the filename
`find {{root_path}} -name {{'*.py'}} -exec {{wc -l {} }}\;`
`find {{root_path}} -name {{'*.py'}} -exec {{rm {} }}\;`
- find files modified since a certain time
`find {{root_path}} -name {{'*.py'}} -mtime {{-1d}}`
- find files using case insensitive name matching, of a certain size
`find {{root_path}} -size +500k -size -10MB -iname {{'*.TaR.gZ'}}`