Updated: 20 November 2023
Find directories with either foo or bar in their name
find . -type d \( -iname '*foo*' -or -iname '*bar*' \) | sortFind files modified within the last 6hrs i.e. 0.25 of 1 day
find /home/chris -type f -mtime -0.25Find files where name (case insensitive) matches ‘*.exe’
find ~/.nuget/packages -iname "*.exe"Find directories where name starts with ‘site’
find . -type d -name 'site*'Find any of the named files (risky, test first)
find this-dir -type f \( -name "foo" -o -name "bar" -o -name "log" \)Find uses ; (or +) to terminate the -exec command. Therefore \; must be used because ; is one of the operators (also && or ||) which separates shell commands.
Find files by text in the file.
find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -il string {} \;-i: ignore case
-l: show filenames, not the match.