Wednesday, October 6, 2021

How to use find command in Linux

Using find command to find and remove the files recursively

1. Use the following command to find *.sql file type which is more than 15 days old and then delete all of them recursively.

# find /path/to/database_dumps/ -name "*.sql" -type f -mtime +15 -exec rm -f {} \;

2. Use the following command to find 20* file type which is more than 15 days old and then delete all of them recursively.

# find /path/to/file/ -type f -mtime +15 -exec rm -f {} \;

# find /opt/export/20* -type f -mtime +5 -exec rm -f {} \;

# find /root/ -name "*-20211109.log" -type f -exec cp {} /root/AllRsyncLogs/ \;

# find . -type f -not -name "*.html" -exec ls -l {} \;

October 06, 2021 Tags : Linux