find Favorites

find . -name "*.log"

Case Insensitive

find . -iname "*.PDF"

By Type (File/Directory)

# Files only
find . -type f -name "*.txt"

# Directories only
find . -type d -name "config"

Modified Time

# Last 24 hours
find . -type f -mtime -1

# More than 30 days ago
find . -type f -mtime +30

# Between 7 and 14 days ago
find . -type f -mtime +7 -mtime -14

By Size

# Larger than 100MB
find . -type f -size +100M

# Smaller than 1KB
find . -type f -size -1k

# Empty files
find . -type f -empty

By Permissions

# World-writable files
find . -type f -perm -002

# Executable files
find . -type f -perm /u+x

Execute Command on Results

# Delete found files
find . -name "*.tmp" -exec rm {} \;

# More efficient (batch)
find . -name "*.tmp" -exec rm {} +

Exclude Directory

find . -path ./.git -prune -o -name "*.py" -print

Multiple Conditions (AND)

find . -type f -name "*.log" -size +10M

Multiple Conditions (OR)

find . -name "*.jpg" -o -name "*.png"

Print with Null Separator (for xargs -0)

find . -name "*.log" -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Depth Limits

# Only current directory
find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.txt"

# Skip first level
find . -mindepth 2 -name "*.txt"

Delete Empty Directories

find . -type d -empty -delete

Find and List with Details

find . -name "*.sh" -exec ls -lh {} \;

By Owner/Group

find /home -user evanusmodestus -type f
find /var -group wheel -type f