Some Commands using Find utility - Linux
To Find the alphanumeric File with special extension
find . -type f -regex ".*[0-9].*\.\(xls\|csv\|php\)"
To Find alplahnumeric file under entire folder by excluding some folder
find . -type f -regex ".*[0-9].*\.\(xls\|csv\|php\)" -not -path "./database/*"
To find alphanumeric file with special extension by skipping more than one folder
find . -type f -regex ".*[0-9].*\.\(xls\|csv\|php\)" -not -path "./database/*" -not -path "./public/DB/*"
To find alphanumeric file with special extension by skipping folder and file with pattern
find . -type f -regex ".*[0-9].*\.\(xls\|csv\|php\)" -not -path "./database/*" -not -path "./app/Console/Commands/bulkServerUpload_[0-9].php"
To Find alphanumeric file with special extension by skipping some files and folder and delete everything with matched pattern.
find . -type f -regex ".*[0-9].*\.\(xls\|csv\|php\|sh\|txt\|js\)" -not -path "./vendor/*" -not -path "./app/lib/*" -not -path "./database/*" -not -path "./public/DB/*" -not -path "./app/Console/Commands/bulkServerUpload_[0-9].php" -not -path "./resources/views/errors/*" -delete
To find files starts or end with numeric by skipping some folder as to exclude and delete those files
find . -type f -regex ".*[0-9].*\.\(xls\|csv\|php\|sh\|txt\|js\)" -not -path "./vendor/*" -not -path "./app/lib/*" -not -path "./database/*" -not -path "./public/DB/*" -not -path "./app/Console/Commands/bulkServerUpload_[0-9].php" -not -path "*bulkupload-[0-9].sh" -not -path "./resources/views/errors/*" -not -path "./storage/*" -not -path "./*DB*" -not -path "./public/assets/components/*" -not -path "./public/datatables/*" -not -path "./public/ndlib/*" -delete
To Find some Dump file and delete
find . -type f -regex ".*\.\(zip\|tar\.gz\|sql\)" -not -path "./public/*DB/*" -delete
To Find all the log file and empty the content
find . -type f -name "*.\(txt\|log\)" -exec tee {} \; </dev/null
