I want to unzip multiple files, Using this answer, I found the following command. find -name '*.zip' -exec sh -c 'unzip -d "${1%.*}" "$1"' _ {} \; How do I use GNU Parallel with the above comman...

What do find -mtime -4 and find -mtime +4 do? I cannot understand the examples given in the man page.

Using GNU findutils, I need to search a directory tree for a certain file. If the file has been found for a given branch, I want to prevent find from recursing further into the branch. Say I want t...

The man page of Debian 8's find command says: If the whole expression contains no actions other than -prune or -print, -print is performed on all files for which the whole expression is true. ...

I'm trying to find files modified in last x minutes, for example in the last hour. Many forums and tutorials on the net suggest to use the find command with the -mmin option, like this: find . -mm...

I'm working on Linux and there is a folder, which contains lots of sub directories. I need to delete all of sub directories which have a same name. For example, dir |---subdir1 |---subdir2 | |-...

I am currently using Git Bash to navigate file directories and edit files. I want to know if there's a command to search the current directory and all directories in it for a file name.

I'm on a mac and I don't want to use the builtin xargs utility. Because it's different with the gnu xargs. After google around I found xargs belongs to the findutils package in homebrew and I can i...

how i can use linux find command for search files that more MIN and less MAX I tried to use the following command: find . -type f -a -size +1000 -a -size -1100 but it does not work