Find Quick Reference

Basic find usage

Find files with name (case insensitive)

# find . -iname 'myfile' 

Find files with name (case sensitive)

# find . -name 'MyFiLe' 

Find empty files

# find . -empty

Find top 10 big files

# find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n  -r | head -10

Find top 10 small files

# find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n | head -10

Find files bigger than size

# find . -size +100M

Find files and print size and name

# find . -name '*.pdf' -printf '%s  %p\n'

Advanced find usage

Delete files older than 30 days.

!!!Attention!!! -delete options delete all files and directory recursively where the command will be executed!

# find /db_backups/ -mtime +30 -delete

Create a tar archive from find output

# find . -type f -print0 | tar -czvf backup.tar.gz --null -T -