find

The find command is handy tool to manage files inside the file system, the command structure is:

find dir criteria [action]

Where:

• dir is the starting dir
• criteria is a filter for the element that have to match
• action is the action to perform on the elements that matches the criteria

Limit file search

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In order to limit the depth level of the search the -maxdepth option can be used

find dir -maxdepth <VALUE> criteria [action]

Oneliners

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• remove files only in current dir with confirmation

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f  -exec rm -i {} \;

• exclude elements by regex

find . -not -regex 'REGEX'

• filter by element name

find . -name 'REGEX'