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== find + exec ==

The basic syntax to execute find with exec :

<nowiki>
find [path] [arguments] -exec [command] {} \;</nowiki>

== List Files ==

<nowiki>
find /home/user/ -type f -name *.txt -exec ls -l {} \;</nowiki>

== Remove By Size ==

Files larger than 500 MB :

<nowiki>
find /home/user/ -size +500M -exec rm {} \;</nowiki>

* size n[cwbkMG]
** File uses less than, more than or exactly n units of space, rounding up. The following suffixes can be used:
*** `b' for 512-byte blocks (this is the default if no suffix is used)
*** `c' for bytes
*** `w' for two-byte words
*** `k' for kibibytes (KiB, units of 1024 bytes)
*** `M' for mebibytes (MiB, units of 1024 * 1024 = 1048576 bytes)
*** `G' for gibibytes (GiB, units of 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 1073741824 bytes)

== Remove By Date ==

Files older than 10 days

<nowiki>
find /home/user/ -type f -mtime +10 -exec rm {} \;</nowiki>

* mtime n
** File's data was last modified less than, more than or exactly n*24 hours ago. See the comments for -atime to understand how rounding affects the interpretation of file modification times.

* -atime n
** File was last accessed less than, more than or exactly n*24 hours ago. When find figures out how many 24-hour periods ago the file was last accessed, any fractional part is ignored, so to match -atime +1, a file has to have been accessed at least two days ago.