find my xargs!

• Extremely versitale command for finding files and doing stuff to/with them

• find /path/to/directory -print

• find -name '*.txt' -exec echo rm {} \;

  • Note single quotes to avoid shell wildcard expansion

• find -name '*.txt' | xargs echo rm

• find -name '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 mpg123

• find -not -newer /tmp/basefile 2>/dev/null | xargs ls -l

• For traversing the whole filesystem, consider “locate” instead but understand database requirements (updatedb, etc.)

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