[find] Find files and folder by name, type, date etc. and take some action on them

Here are some examples:

Find all files called assignment

1find -type f -name assignment

Find all directories called homework

1find -type d -name homework

Find and delete files called .DS_Store

1find . -type f -name .DS_Store -exec rm -rf {} \;

Find all folders called cache and set their permissions to 777

1find . -type d -name cache -exec chmod 777 {} \;

More about find

• Run find --help and man find to read help docs and find out the possibilities
• By default is searches in the current directory, recursively.
• You can run a variety of tests

tests (N can be +N or -N or N): -amin N -anewer FILE -atime N -cmin N
      -cnewer FILE -ctime N -empty -false -fstype TYPE -gid N -group NAME
      -ilname PATTERN -iname PATTERN -inum N -iwholename PATTERN -iregex PATTERN
      -links N -lname PATTERN -mmin N -mtime N -name PATTERN -newer FILE
      -nouser -nogroup -path PATTERN -perm [-/]MODE -regex PATTERN
      -readable -writable -executable
      -wholename PATTERN -size N[bcwkMG] -true -type [bcdpflsD] -uid N
      -used N -user NAME -xtype [bcdpfls]      -context CONTEXT

• -mtime is for modification time, -ctime is for creation time, atime is for access time.
• Common types you can pass with -type are - f for regular files - d for directory - l for symbolic link - s for scoket file
• You can pass multiple types as a comma separated list, for example: -type f,d,l