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Give all files in the /path/to/base/dir tree read privileges	find /path/to/base/dir -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 chmod 644
list all CSS files (and directories ending with “.css”) under the current directory	find . -name "*.css"
list all CSS files under the current directory	find . -type f -name "*.css"
list all the directories in the folder httpdocs	find httpdocs -type d
List all directories of the $topdir directory tree that contain a Makefile and at least one .py file	find "$topdir" -name '*.py' -printf '%h\0' \| xargs -0 -I {} find {} -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -name Makefile -printf '%h\n' \| sort -u
list all files	find .
List all files and directories in the /home directory tree whose names are "Trash"	find /home -name Trash -exec ls -al {} \;
List all files/directories under current directory	find -ls
List all files/directories under current directory	find .
List all files/directories under current directory	find . -print
List all regular files from the current directory tree that were modified less than 60 minutes ago	find . -mmin -60 -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
List all regular files from the current directory tree that were modified less than 60 minutes ago	find . -mmin -60 -type f -ls
List all regular files from the current directory tree that were modified less than 60 minutes ago	find . -mmin -60 -type f \| xargs ls -l
List and remove all regular files named "core" under /prog that are larger than 500k	find /prog -type f -size +1000 -print -name core -exec rm {} \;
List the directory paths of all file.ext files under present working directory	find . -name "file.ext" -execdir pwd ';'
List the directory paths of all file.ext files under present working directory	find `pwd` -name "file.ext" -exec dirname {} \;
List the directory paths of all file.ext files under present working directory	find `pwd` -name file.ext \|xargs -l1 dirname
list files in /u/bill that were last read from 2 to 6 minutes ago	find /u/bill -amin +2 -amin -6
List files larger than 9MB residing in the current directory and below	find . -size +9M
List regular files in current directory with read, write and execute permission for all users and also show the permissions	find . -type f -perm 777 -exec ls -l {} \;
List regular files in current directory with read, write and execute permission for all users and also show the permissions	find . -type f -perm a=rwx -exec ls -l {} \;
List the regular files of the current directory tree that contain string "texthere"	find -type f -exec grep -l "texthere" {} +
list regular file which file name end with 'cache' 'xml' or 'html' in current directory	find . -type f \( -name "cache" -o -name "xml" -o -name "*html" \)
Locate files not owned by any user or group	find / -path /proc -prune -o -nouser -o -nogroup
Make a copy of the entire contents of SRCFOLDER called "DESTFOLDER", if DESTFOLDER exists, the copy will be placed within it.	cp -R SRCFOLDER DESTFOLDER/
Make directories "bravo_dir" and "alpha_dir"	mkdir bravo_dir alpha_dir
Make directories to "/some/path" as needed	mkdir -p ./some/path
Measure the disk space taken up by all *.txt files in directory trees folder1 and folder2	find folder1 folder2 -iname '*.txt' -print0 \| du --files0-from - -c -s \| tail -1
Move all directories in the current directory tree that have been modified in the last day to "/path/to/target-dir"	find . -depth -type d -mtime 0 -exec mv -t /path/to/target-dir {} +
Move all directories in the current directory tree that have been modified in the last day to "/path/to/target-dir"	find . -type d -mtime -0 -exec mv -t /path/to/target-dir {} +
Move all directories in the current directory tree that have been modified in the last day to "/path/to/target-dir"	find . -type d -mtime -0 -print0 \| xargs -0 mv -t /path/to/target-dir
Move all files in the current directory tree that match "some_pattern" to "target_location"	find . -name some_pattern -print0 \| xargs -0 -I % mv % target_location
Numerically sort file "temp.txt" by the second "-" separated value of each line ordered from highest value to least value	tac temp.txt \| sort -k2,2 -r -u
Print a colon-separated list of all directories from the $root directory tree, except those matching pattern ".[a-z]*"	find "$root" -name ".[a-z]*" -prune -o -type d -printf '%p:'
Print all directories under $root appending a : (colon) at the end of each path	find $root -type d -printf '%p:'
Print all files and directories in the `.' directory tree skipping SCCS directories but printing out the SCCS directory name	find . -print -name SCCS -prune
Print all the file/directory paths under current directory	find \| xargs
Print the current directory tree	tree
Print the entire saved command history	history
Prints last modified file in a current folder with modification time.	find . -type f -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td %TH:%TM: %Tz %p\n'\| sort -n \| tail -n1
Print the list of all files under the current directory and below	find .
Print the names of all files in the home directory and its subdirectories recursively whose MIME type is video	find ~ -type f -exec file -i {} + \| grep video
Print your/dir if it's empty	find your/dir -prune -empty
Recursively change the owner of all files in "~/tmp" to "$USER"	sudo chown -R $USER ~/tmp
recursively change owner of the directory /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ to the current user	sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/lib/node_modules
Recursively copies 'include/gtest' to '/usr/include', preserving all attributes, and copying symlinks as symlinks, without following in source files.	sudo cp -a include/gtest /usr/include
Recursively removes all files named '.svn' in a current folder, and prints messages on each action.	find . -name .svn -exec rm -v {} \;
Remove all *.txt files in the home directory tree with confirmation	find $HOME/. -name *.txt -ok rm {} \;
Remove any file containing string "GUI"	find / -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 grep -liwZ GUI \| xargs -0 rm -f
Report file systems disk space usage pretty formatted.	df -Ph \| column -t
Save directory "../../lib" relative to the executable "gcc" to variable "libdir"	libdir=$(dirname $(dirname $(which gcc)))/lib
Search the .cs files of the current directory tree for string "content pattern"	find ./ -type f -iname "*.cs" -print0 \| xargs -0 grep "content pattern"
Search the .css files in the /starting/directory tree for ".ExampleClass"	find /starting/directory -type f -name '*.css' \| xargs -ti grep '\.ExampleClass' {}
Search /dev/shm and /tmp for regular files not changed in two weeks	find /dev/shm /tmp -type f -ctime +14
Search /etc for files modified within the last day	find /etc -type f -ctime -1
Search the /path directory tree for files that do not have a valid user or group	find /path -nouser -or -nogroup
Search /tmp/ for files smaller than 100 bytes	find /tmp -size -100c
Search /usr, /home, /tmp for *.jar files	find /usr /home /tmp -name "*.jar"
Search /var/tmp for files larger than 30 MB modified 31 days ago	find /tmp /var/tmp -size +30M -mtime 31 -ls
Search all .c and .h files in the current directory tree for string "e"	find . -name "*.[ch]" -exec grep --color -aHn "e" {} \;
Search the current directory recursively for directories with the execute permission set for everybody	find -type d ! -perm -111
Search the current directory tree for .c and .sh files	find . -type f \( -name ".c" -o -name ".sh" \)
Search the current directory tree for directories that can be opened by noone	find -type d ! -perm -111
Search the current directory tree for files containing "bash" in their names	find . -name "bash" \| xargs
Search the current directory tree for files matching regular expression '.*myfile[0-9][0-9]?'	find . -regex '.*myfile[0-9][0-9]?'
Search the current directory tree for files whose name is ".note", case insensitive	find . -iname '.note' \| sort -r
Search the entire system for SUID or SGID files	find / -path /proc -prune -o -type f -perm +6000 -ls
Search files "file-containing-can't" in the current directory tree for the string "can't"	find . -name "file-containing-can't" -exec grep "can't" '{}' \; -print
Search the files from the current directory tree for "foo"	find . -exec grep -l foo {} +
search for a word in all the php files in the current folder and display the matching lines. PLus at the end takes multilple files as input	find . -name \*.php -type f -exec grep -Hn '$test' {} \+
search for a word in all the regular files in the current folder without traversing the sub directories .	find -maxdepth 1 -type f \| xargs grep -F 'example'
search for all the directories in the current directory and do not search in sub directories	find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d
Search for files "file1" or "file9"	find . -name file1 -or -name file9
Search for files which have read and write permission for their owner, and group, but which other users can read but not write to.	find . -perm 664
Search for symlinks pointing to anywhere within /mnt/oldname/	find / -type l -lname '/mnt/oldname*'
search for text files in the directory "/home/user1" and copy them to the directory /home/backup	find /home/user1 -name '*.txt' \| xargs cp -av --target-directory=/home/backup/ --parents
Search for the wp-config.php file in /var/www and one level below	find /var/www/ -name wp-config.php -maxdepth 2
Search only for regular files	find -type f
Search regular files under ~/mail for string "Linux"	find ~/mail -type f \| xargs grep "Linux"
Set 644 permission to all regular files under current directory	find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Set 644 permission to all regular files under current directory	find . -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 chmod 644
Set the permissions of all directories inside the current directory tree to u=rwx,g=rx,o=x	find . -type d -exec chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=x {} \;
Set permissions to 500 for directories under the current directory	find . -type d -exec chmod 500 {} \;
Show manual page of find utility	man find
Simulate a full login	su -
split all files in directory "/dev/shm/split/" into pieces per 1000 lines	find /dev/shm/split/ -type f -exec split -l 1000 {} {} \;
split all files in directory "posns " into pieces per 10000 lines	find posns -type f -exec split -l 10000 {} \;
start from current directory, skip the directory src/emacs and all files and directories under it, and print the names of the other files found	find . -wholename './src/emacs' -prune -o -print
tar all the regular java files to myfile.tar	find . -type f -name "*.java" \| xargs tar cvf myfile.tar
use find -exec with multiple commands	find . -name "*.txt" -exec echo {} \; -exec grep banana {} \;

Give all files in the /path/to/base/dir tree read privileges

find /path/to/base/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644

list all CSS files (and directories ending with “.css”) under the current directory

find . -name "*.css"

list all CSS files under the current directory

find . -type f -name "*.css"

list all the directories in the folder httpdocs

find httpdocs -type d

List all directories of the $topdir directory tree that contain a Makefile and at least one .py file

find "$topdir" -name '*.py' -printf '%h\0' | xargs -0 -I {} find {} -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -name Makefile -printf '%h\n' | sort -u

list all files

find .

List all files and directories in the /home directory tree whose names are "Trash"

find /home -name Trash -exec ls -al {} \;

List all files/directories under current directory

find -ls

List all files/directories under current directory

find .

List all files/directories under current directory

find . -print

List all regular files from the current directory tree that were modified less than 60 minutes ago

find . -mmin -60 -type f -exec ls -l {} \;

List all regular files from the current directory tree that were modified less than 60 minutes ago

find . -mmin -60 -type f -ls

List all regular files from the current directory tree that were modified less than 60 minutes ago

find . -mmin -60 -type f | xargs ls -l

List and remove all regular files named "core" under /prog that are larger than 500k

find /prog -type f -size +1000 -print -name core -exec rm {} \;

List the directory paths of all file.ext files under present working directory

find . -name "file.ext" -execdir pwd ';'

List the directory paths of all file.ext files under present working directory

find `pwd` -name "file.ext" -exec dirname {} \;

List the directory paths of all file.ext files under present working directory

find `pwd` -name file.ext |xargs -l1 dirname

list files in /u/bill that were last read from 2 to 6 minutes ago

find /u/bill -amin +2 -amin -6

List files larger than 9MB residing in the current directory and below

find . -size +9M

List regular files in current directory with read, write and execute permission for all users and also show the permissions

find . -type f -perm 777 -exec ls -l {} \;

List regular files in current directory with read, write and execute permission for all users and also show the permissions

find . -type f -perm a=rwx -exec ls -l {} \;

List the regular files of the current directory tree that contain string "texthere"

find -type f -exec grep -l "texthere" {} +

list regular file which file name end with 'cache' 'xml' or 'html' in current directory

find . -type f $ -name "*cache" -o -name "*xml" -o -name "*html" $

Locate files not owned by any user or group

find / -path /proc -prune -o -nouser -o -nogroup

Make a copy of the entire contents of SRCFOLDER called "DESTFOLDER", if DESTFOLDER exists, the copy will be placed within it.

cp -R SRCFOLDER DESTFOLDER/

Make directories "bravo_dir" and "alpha_dir"

mkdir bravo_dir alpha_dir

Make directories to "/some/path" as needed

mkdir -p ./some/path

Measure the disk space taken up by all *.txt files in directory trees folder1 and folder2

find folder1 folder2 -iname '*.txt' -print0 | du --files0-from - -c -s | tail -1

Move all directories in the current directory tree that have been modified in the last day to "/path/to/target-dir"

find . -depth -type d -mtime 0 -exec mv -t /path/to/target-dir {} +

Move all directories in the current directory tree that have been modified in the last day to "/path/to/target-dir"

find . -type d -mtime -0 -exec mv -t /path/to/target-dir {} +

Move all directories in the current directory tree that have been modified in the last day to "/path/to/target-dir"

find . -type d -mtime -0 -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t /path/to/target-dir

Move all files in the current directory tree that match "some_pattern" to "target_location"

find . -name some_pattern -print0 | xargs -0 -I % mv % target_location

Numerically sort file "temp.txt" by the second "-" separated value of each line ordered from highest value to least value

tac temp.txt | sort -k2,2 -r -u

Print a colon-separated list of all directories from the $root directory tree, except those matching pattern ".[a-z]*"

find "$root" -name ".[a-z]*" -prune -o -type d -printf '%p:'

Print all directories under $root appending a : (colon) at the end of each path

find $root -type d -printf '%p:'

Print all files and directories in the `.' directory tree skipping SCCS directories but printing out the SCCS directory name

find . -print -name SCCS -prune

Print all the file/directory paths under current directory

find | xargs

Print the current directory tree

tree

Print the entire saved command history

history

Prints last modified file in a current folder with modification time.

find . -type f -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td %TH:%TM: %Tz %p\n'| sort -n | tail -n1

Print the list of all files under the current directory and below

find .

Print the names of all files in the home directory and its subdirectories recursively whose MIME type is video

find ~ -type f -exec file -i {} + | grep video

Print your/dir if it's empty

find your/dir -prune -empty

Recursively change the owner of all files in "~/tmp" to "$USER"

sudo chown -R $USER ~/tmp

recursively change owner of the directory /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ to the current user

sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/lib/node_modules

Recursively copies 'include/gtest' to '/usr/include', preserving all attributes, and copying symlinks as symlinks, without following in source files.

sudo cp -a include/gtest /usr/include

Recursively removes all files named '.svn' in a current folder, and prints messages on each action.

find . -name .svn -exec rm -v {} \;

Remove all *.txt files in the home directory tree with confirmation

find $HOME/. -name *.txt -ok rm {} \;

Remove any file containing string "GUI"

find / -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -liwZ GUI | xargs -0 rm -f

Report file systems disk space usage pretty formatted.

df -Ph | column -t

Save directory "../../lib" relative to the executable "gcc" to variable "libdir"

libdir=$(dirname $(dirname $(which gcc)))/lib

Search the .cs files of the current directory tree for string "content pattern"

find ./ -type f -iname "*.cs" -print0 | xargs -0 grep "content pattern"

Search the .css files in the /starting/directory tree for ".ExampleClass"

find /starting/directory -type f -name '*.css' | xargs -ti grep '\.ExampleClass' {}

Search /dev/shm and /tmp for regular files not changed in two weeks

find /dev/shm /tmp -type f -ctime +14

Search /etc for files modified within the last day

find /etc -type f -ctime -1

Search the /path directory tree for files that do not have a valid user or group

find /path -nouser -or -nogroup

Search /tmp/ for files smaller than 100 bytes

find /tmp -size -100c

Search /usr, /home, /tmp for *.jar files

find /usr /home /tmp -name "*.jar"

Search /var/tmp for files larger than 30 MB modified 31 days ago

find /tmp /var/tmp -size +30M -mtime 31 -ls

Search all .c and .h files in the current directory tree for string "e"

find . -name "*.[ch]" -exec grep --color -aHn "e" {} \;

Search the current directory recursively for directories with the execute permission set for everybody

find -type d ! -perm -111

Search the current directory tree for *.c and *.sh files

find . -type f $ -name "*.c" -o -name "*.sh" $

Search the current directory tree for directories that can be opened by noone

find -type d ! -perm -111

Search the current directory tree for files containing "bash" in their names

find . -name "*bash*" | xargs

Search the current directory tree for files matching regular expression '.*myfile[0-9][0-9]?'

find . -regex '.*myfile[0-9][0-9]?'

Search the current directory tree for files whose name is ".note", case insensitive

find . -iname '.note' | sort -r

Search the entire system for SUID or SGID files

find / -path /proc -prune -o -type f -perm +6000 -ls

Search files "file-containing-can't" in the current directory tree for the string "can't"

find . -name "file-containing-can't" -exec grep "can't" '{}' \; -print

Search the files from the current directory tree for "foo"

find . -exec grep -l foo {} +

search for a word in all the php files in the current folder and display the matching lines. PLus at the end takes multilple files as input

find . -name \*.php -type f -exec grep -Hn '$test' {} \+

search for a word in all the regular files in the current folder without traversing the sub directories .

find -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs grep -F 'example'

search for all the directories in the current directory and do not search in sub directories

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d

Search for files "file1" or "file9"

find . -name file1 -or -name file9

Search for files which have read and write permission for their owner, and group, but which other users can read but not write to.

find . -perm 664

Search for symlinks pointing to anywhere within /mnt/oldname/

find / -type l -lname '/mnt/oldname*'

search for text files in the directory "/home/user1" and copy them to the directory /home/backup

find /home/user1 -name '*.txt' | xargs cp -av --target-directory=/home/backup/ --parents

Search for the wp-config.php file in /var/www and one level below

find /var/www/ -name wp-config.php -maxdepth 2

Search only for regular files

find -type f

Search regular files under ~/mail for string "Linux"

find ~/mail -type f | xargs grep "Linux"

Set 644 permission to all regular files under current directory

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Set 644 permission to all regular files under current directory

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644

Set the permissions of all directories inside the current directory tree to u=rwx,g=rx,o=x

find . -type d -exec chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=x {} \;

Set permissions to 500 for directories under the current directory

find . -type d -exec chmod 500 {} \;

Show manual page of find utility

man find

Simulate a full login

su -

split all files in directory "/dev/shm/split/" into pieces per 1000 lines

find /dev/shm/split/ -type f -exec split -l 1000 {} {} \;

split all files in directory "posns " into pieces per 10000 lines

find posns -type f -exec split -l 10000 {} \;

start from current directory, skip the directory src/emacs and all files and directories under it, and print the names of the other files found

find . -wholename './src/emacs' -prune -o -print

tar all the regular java files to myfile.tar

find . -type f -name "*.java" | xargs tar cvf myfile.tar

use find -exec with multiple commands

find . -name "*.txt" -exec echo {} \; -exec grep banana {} \;