How to find files in linux

Need to find files older than certain time frame? This will help, “find [dir] -type f -mtime +[24hours*n] ”

Examples,

Show files older than 7 days

find /tmp/ -type f -mtime +7

Show files older than 7 days and rm them.

find /tmp/ -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

or if you have a large number of files

find /tmp/ -type f -mtime +7 | xargs rm

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1. hongkiat says:

   January 16, 2008 at 1:34 pm

   Nice little tricks, saving them to my routine use list

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2. josh says:

   June 11, 2008 at 3:17 pm

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   Search for files on Linux quickly using the command line:

   article:
   http://www.codetechnical.com/linux/search-for-a-file-in-linux.html

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