Find Cheatsheet

Find command for file searching, filtering, and batch operations

File Search6 commandsbeginner

Overview

Find searches the filesystem for files matching specified criteria.

Find is powerful for locating files with complex criteria and executing operations on them.

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

Find TypeScript files recursively

find . -type d -name "node_modules" -prune

Locate matching directories

find . -mtime -1

Find files modified in last day

find . -size +10M

Find files larger than 10MB

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +

Run command on matched files

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l

Pipe safe null-delimited results

Start with the search by name, type, size, and modification date

Search by name, type, size, and modification date

Execute commands on found files with -exec

Use regex patterns for advanced matching

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