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Find all files modified more than 5 days ago
$ find my_folder -mtime +5 you can see the list of files and directories found recursively inside the snap directory.
find "name"
Find files and directories with names starting with 'snap' find -name "snap*"
Find files and directories with names starting with 'snap' in case insensitive manner (For example:'Snap', 'snap', 'SNaP', etc.) find -iname "snap*"
find "snap" -type f
Find a directory named 'snap' find "snap" -type d
find -name "snap*" -type d
Find files only (-type f) and (-and) ensure the names (-name) start with snap in the current directory and subdirectories. find -name "snap*" -and -type f
Find directories only (-type d) and (-and) ensure the names (-name) start with snap in the current directory and subdirectories. find -name "snap*" -and -type d
Find files only (-type f) and (-and) ensure the names (-name) start with snap find -name "snap" -and -type f
Find directories only (-type d) and (-and) ensure the names (-name) start with snap find -name "snap" -and -type d
find -name "snap*" -type f -or -name "chart*"
find -not -name "snap*" -type f
find "snap" -depth
Find files and directories one step down from the working directory find . -maxdepth 1 -name "chart*"
Find files and directories two steps down from the ~/chart directory find ~/chart -maxdepth 2 -name "chart"
Find files and directories you last accessed between 2-3 days ago find -atime 2
Find files and directories you last accessed within the past 2 days find -atime -2
Find files and directories you last accessed within the past day find -atime 0
Find a file named 'snap.doc' then open the file in vi editor find -name "snap.doc" -exec vi {} ;
Find a file named 'snap.doc' then remove the file find -name "snap.doc" -exec rm {} ;
Find a directory named 'thanos', then delete the directory This command fails since the 'thanos' directory is not empty find "thanos" -type d -delete
Find a file named 'thanos.snap', then delete the file find "thanos.snap" -type f -delete