cheatsheets/find.md

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---
title: Find
category: CLI
updated: 2019-11-17
---
### Usage
{: .-prime}
```bash
find <path> <conditions> <actions>
```
### Conditions
```bash
-name "*.c"
```
```bash
-user jonathan
-nouser
```
```bash
-type f # File
-type d # Directory
-type l # Symlink
```
```bash
-depth 2 # At least 3 levels deep
-regex PATTERN
```
```bash
-size 8 # Exactly 8 512-bit blocks
-size -128c # Smaller than 128 bytes
-size 1440k # Exactly 1440KiB
-size +10M # Larger than 10MiB
-size +2G # Larger than 2GiB
```
```bash
-newer file.txt
-newerm file.txt # modified newer than file.txt
-newerX file.txt # [c]hange, [m]odified, [B]create
-newerXt "1 hour ago" # [t]imestamp
```
### Access time conditions
```bash
-atime 0 # Last accessed between now and 24 hours ago
-atime +0 # Accessed more than 24 hours ago
-atime 1 # Accessed between 24 and 48 hours ago
-atime +1 # Accessed more than 48 hours ago
-atime -1 # Accessed less than 24 hours ago (same a 0)
-ctime -6h30m # File status changed within the last 6 hours and 30 minutes
-mtime +1w # Last modified more than 1 week ago
```
These conditions only work in MacOS and BSD-like systems (no GNU/Linux support).
### Condition flow
```bash
\! -name "*.c" # NOT named "*.c"
\( x -or y \)
```
### Actions
```bash
-exec rm {} \;
-print
-delete
```
### Examples
```bash
find . -name '*.jpg'
find . -name '*.jpg' -exec rm {} \;
```
```bash
find . -newerBt "24 hours ago"
```
```bash
find . -type f -mtime +29 # find files modified more than 30 days ago
find . -type f -newermt 2016-08-07 \! -newermt 2016-08-08 # find in date range
```