Examples
find . -name '*.jpg'
find . -name '*.jpg' -exec rm {} \;
find . -newerBt "24 hours ago"
find . -type f -mtime +29 # find files modified more than 30 days ago
Actions
-exec rm {} \;
-print
-delete
Condition flow
\! -name "*.c"
\( x -or y \)
Access time conditions
-atime 0 # Last accessed between now and 24 hours ago
-atime +0 # Accessed more than 24 hours ago
-atime 1 # Accessed between 24 and 48 hours ago
-atime +1 # Accessed more than 48 hours ago
-atime -1 # Accessed less than 24 hours ago (same a 0)
-ctime -6h30m # File status changed within the last 6 hours and 30 minutes
-mtime +1w # Last modified more than 1 week ago
These conditions only work in MacOS and BSD-like systems (no GNU/Linux support).
Conditions
-name "*.c"
-user jonathan
-nouser
-type f # File
-type d # Directory
-type l # Symlink
-depth 2 # At least 3 levels deep
-regex PATTERN
-size 8 # Exactly 8 512-bit blocks
-size -128c # Smaller than 128 bytes
-size 1440k # Exactly 1440KiB
-size +10M # Larger than 10MiB
-size +2G # Larger than 2GiB
-newer file.txt
-newerm file.txt # modified newer than file.txt
-newerX file.txt # [c]hange, [m]odified, [B]create
-newerXt "1 hour ago" # [t]imestamp
Usage
{: .-prime}
find <path> <conditions> <actions>
Top comments (0)