Bash Find Examples

findExamples.sh

#!/bin/bash

#Find all link files
ls -ltr `find . -maxdepth 1 -type l -print`

#Find and remove all files whose modified time is greater than 30 days
find . -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

#Find particular word across files in same directory
find . -type f | xargs grep -l "searched_word"

#Files with zero size
find . -size 0 -print > zerosize.txt

#Find files before a particular date:
touch -t 201305010000 timestamp
find . -type f ! -newer timestamp -exec cp -r {} ../tmp_vin \;

#Copy only folder structure
cd source_dir
find . -type d -depth | cpio -dumpl destination_dir

cd destination/dir
find /source/dir -type d -printf "%P\n" | xargs mkdir -p