Aug 17, 2016 · How can I recursively find all files in current and subfolders based on wildcard matching?

Jun 6, 2013 · How do I find all files containing a specific string of text within their file contents? The following doesn't work. It seems to display every single file in the system. find / -type f …

Among the approached variously suggested in this thread (How to exclude a directory in find . command), I find that searches using the accepted answer are much faster -- with caveats.

Dec 16, 2010 · What type of parameter/flag can I use with the Unix find command so that I search executables?

I need to hide all permission denied messages from: find . > files_and_folders I am experimenting when such message arises. I need to gather all folders and files, to which it …

Jul 27, 2011 · I have some images named with generated uuid1 string. For example 81397018-b84a-11e0-9d2a-001b77dc0bed.jpg. I want to find out all these images using "find" command: …

Some editions of find, mostly on linux systems, possibly on others aswell support -regex and -regextype options, which finds files with names matching the regex.

Aug 27, 2014 · For example, -mtime +1 finds files changed more than 2 days ago => at least 48 hours. If you need more precision, you can use -mmin to search by minutes. You can also …

In zsh (in my case the current version is 5.9), you can check the directory of some command using = as prefix. For example, if you want to know where is located the mkdir command you …

Oct 29, 2015 · I'm trying to find files modified in last x minutes, for example in the last hour. Many forums and tutorials on the net suggest to use the find command with the -mmin option, like …