Find Cheatsheet

-type flag

flag	description
d	directory
f	files
l	symbolic links

By name

info

Include -iname flag for case insensitive search

find ~/Desktop -name "*.txt"

By size

# Find files under 50 MB
find -size -50M

# Find files exactly 20KB
find -size 20K

# Find files > 1GbB
find -size 1G

Finding By Time

# Items modified < 20 minutes ago
find -mmin -20 

# Items acessed more than 60 minutes ago
find -amin +60

Logical operators

find -name "*chick*" -or -name "*kitty*"

find -type -f -not -name "*.html"

User-Defined Actions

# Delete every file that contains "_OLD_" in file name
find - name "*_OLD_*" -exec rm '{}' ';'