find

Search for files in a directory hierarchy.

$ find .

Starting path

Name pattern (-name)Name pattern case-insensitive (-iname)File type (-type)

Any

File

Directory

Symlink

Max depth (-maxdepth)

Examples

# Find by name
find . -name "*.txt"

# Find by type
find /var/log -type f -name "*.log"

# Find and execute
find . -name "*.tmp" -exec rm {} \;

# Find empty files
find . -type f -empty

# Limit depth
find . -maxdepth 2 -name "*.md"