Find

• Find files with particular word in its name:

  find <location> -iname <word>
  

  Usage : find /etc -iname “*apache*”

• Find files with size more than certain size:

  find <location> -type f -size +<size_integer>M
  

  Usage : find / -type f -size +100M

• Find files which are not modified in last x number of days:

  find <location> -mtime +<integer>
  

  Usage : find . -mtime +2 #Find files in current dir which are not modified last 2 days

• Find files which are modified in last x number of days:

  find <location> -mtime -<integer>
  

  Usage : find . -mtime -2 #Find files in current dir which are modified last 2 days

• Finding image files in current directory on the basis of mime-type:

  find . -type f -exec file {} \+ | grep -c -i 'image'
  

  is faster than:

  find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file -i | grep -i image | wc -l