find cheatsheet

Examples

To find a file with the name hello.txt somewhere in the ~/workspace directory:

find ~/workspace -type f -name 'hello.txt'

To find any directories with the name temp somewhere in the ~/workspace directory:

find ~/workspace -type d -name 'temp'

To find and delete any folders that starts with .terraform/providers:

find . -type d -name '.terraform' -exec bash -c 'if [ -d "$1/providers" ]; then rm -rf "$1/providers"; fi' bash {} \;