Aug 17, 2016 · How can I recursively find all files in current and subfolders based on wildcard matching?

Jun 6, 2013 · find is the standard tool for searching files - combined with grep when looking for specific text - on Unix-like platforms. The find command is often combined with xargs, by the way.

Mar 9, 2011 · $ find srch_dir -amin -60 # access time shows files whose metadata has been changed (ctime), the file contents itself have been modified (mtime), or accessed (atime) in the last hour, …

Dec 17, 2025 · After long time working with Unix systems I had to make some scripts on Windows. For serious scripting Powershell is the tool you should use. You can search Internet with keywords like …

Apr 29, 2009 · On my Fedora 10 system, with findutils-4.4.0-1.fc10.i386: find <path> -daystart -ctime 0 -print The -daystart flag tells it to calculate from the start of today instead of from 24 hours ago. Note …

Oct 10, 2011 · 15 Is there any particular reason that you need to use find? You can just use ls to find files that match a pattern in a directory.

Among the approached variously suggested in this thread (How to exclude a directory in find . command), I find that searches using the accepted answer are much faster -- with caveats.

Sep 15, 2008 · Printf works like this: find . -name *.ear -printf "%p %k KB\n" -exec is more powerful and lets you execute arbitrary commands - so you could use a version of 'ls' or 'wc' to print out the …

May 14, 2009 · I am doing a find to get a list of files. How do I pipe it to another utility like cat so that cat displays the contents of all those files? Afterwards, I'd use grep on that to search some text in ...

Jun 12, 2015 · With -l (L) we make the file name to be printed, without the matched line. Explanation find -type f this finds files in the given directory structure. -name "*.xml" selects those files whose name …