Swedegeek's Blog

Yep, I’ve been a bit lax in posting for the past month, and I still have a couple unfinished posts I need to get back to. But, I just read a great synopsis of the find command for *nix-based systems and had to share it. For those of you working in such environments, and don’t know the power of this utility, you definitely need to check it out. I’ve used a good many of the options described in the article for my own purposes. Everything from to just a straight up ‘find this file’ to using it in a quick bash script to purge archived files older than 6 months. Combine find with the xargs command (also mentioned in the article) and you can do a sorts of cool file manipulation in a single line. Fun stuff!

So endeth the lesson.