find

Find files or directories under a directory tree, recursively. More information: https://manned.org/find.

• Find files by extension:

find root_path -name '*.ext'

• Find files matching multiple path/name patterns:

find root_path -path '/path//*.ext' -or -name 'pattern'

• Find directories matching a given name, in case-insensitive mode:

find root_path -type d -iname 'lib'

• Find files matching a given pattern, excluding specific paths:

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

• Find files matching a given size range, limiting the recursive depth to "1":

find root_path -maxdepth 1 -size +500k -size -10M

• Run a command for each file (use {} within the command to access the filename):

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

• Find all files modified today and pass the results to a single command as arguments:

find root_path -daystart -mtime -1 -exec tar -cvf archive.tar {} \+

• Search for either empty files or directories and delete them verbosely:

find root_path -type f|d -empty -delete -print