bash - example parameters for "find"

find /path/where/to/find -name "my_img.png"

find the file called "my_img.png" (in all sub-directories)  (case-sensitive)

find / -iname "file_name"

find (search through all files) by case-insensitive name

find / -not -name "file_name_to_avoid"

find all files but (regexp can be used)

find / -type TYPE

 find by type  (find -type f OR find -type d) f= file, d=directory 

find / -type f -iname "*.png" 

find all *.png or *.PNG images of type file

find / -size -10M 

find files less than 10MB  (+10MB would be more than 10MB)

find / -mtime -1 

find files with modification time less than 1 day ago

find / -atime +2.3 

find files with access time more than 2.3 days ago

find / -mmin -0.2 

find files modified within the last 0.2 minutes 

find / -perm 644 

find with these exact permissions

find / -perm -644

find files with at least these permissions

find . -perm 644 -exec chmod 664 {} \;  

find files and execute a command (here change permission)

find -mmin -5 -exec rename 's/Chse/Cheese/' {} \;

find files modified within the last 5 minutes and rename the part Chse of each file to Cheese (executes rename command once for every file)

find -mmin -5 | xargs -i cp {} ~/Desktop/  

find files modified within the last 5 minutes and copy them to the desktop (xargs normally operates on all found files, -i specifies that operation is once for every file)

find . -name "*.txt" -exec sed -i "s/badOld/goodNew/g" '{}' \;

replace all occurences of the word badOld to goodNew in all *.txt files in the current folder