find¶

move files¶

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} mv {} dest/path

to stay in the current folder when searching, use -d for the depth, or change it to search through more levels of directories:

find . -type f -d 1

find them:

find /mnt/media/ -type f -iname ".*.*.??????" -ls

delete them:

find /mnt/media/ -type f -iname ".*.*.??????" -delete

assuming you have a folder full of files and you only want to keep all files starting with us- and ca- and delete all others:

find . -type f ! -name 'us-*' ! -name 'ca-*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

… you may want to double check if you actually want to delete them, but I had some conflicts in syncthing and checked for them manually

find /data -size 0