find

CautionFind files

find <path> -name '<pattern>'

Recursively finds files by name/type/mtime/size.

Examples

find /var -name '*.log' -mtime +30Logs older than 30 days
find . -type f -size +100MFiles over 100MB

Syntax

find <path> [-name <pat>] [-type f|d] [-mtime n] [-exec ... \;]

Before you run it

Combined with -exec rm it can be destructive.

Used when you see

Logs are eating the disk

Hunt big/old log files with find

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