Find it and do what you want

It’s safe to say that the find command in Linux is one of the must-know operations for backend developers, unless you are using a Windows-server

For technical interviews, it’s also a popular topic. Let’s see a real questions

Scenario

If there is a directory called "logs" on you Linux server, how to delete the log files under it whose last access times was over one year ago?

Answer

First of all, we need to use the cd command to enter the corresponding directory, and then, the command is as follows: ` find . -type f -atime +365 -exec rm -rf {} ;`

0. Find Files by Names or Regular Expressions

• Let’s start from the simples usage. TO search files by a specific name, the command is like the following :

find . -name test.txt

참고

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