Editing Find (Unix) (section)

===Search files by name and size ===
<syntaxhighlight lang="console">
$ find /usr/src ! \( -name '*,v' -o -name '.*,v' \) '{}' \; -print
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This command will search the /usr/src directory tree. All files that are of the form {{mono|'*,v'}} and {{mono|'.*,v'}} are excluded. Important arguments to note are in the [[tooltip]] that is displayed on mouse-over.

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
for file in $(find /opt \( -name error_log -o -name 'access_log' -o -name 'ssl_engine_log' -o -name 'rewrite_log' -o -name 'catalina.out' \) -size +300000k -a -size -5000000k); do 
    cat /dev/null > $file
done
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The units should be one of {{mono|[bckw]}}, 'b' means 512-byte blocks, 'c' means byte, 'k' means kilobytes and 'w' means 2-byte words. The size does not count indirect blocks, but it does count blocks in sparse files that are not actually allocated.