find

The find command is used to search and locate the list of files and directories based on conditions you specify for files that match the arguments.

Basic

• Simple find command (find a file in current directory)

Bash

find . -name kafana.md

• Find all the files under /home directory with the name kafana.md.

Bash

find /home -name kafana.md

Examples

• Find files and remove everything except .gz

Bash

find . -type f -not -name '*.gz'-delete

Find older than *

• modified before XX days

Bash

find /var/log -name "*.log" -type f -mtime +30 

Bash

find /var/log -name "*.log" -type f -mtime +30 -delete 

Bash

find /var/log -type d -mtime +90 

Bash

find /var/log -type d -mtime +30 -exec rm -rf {} \;