Find

find

Tips
If you want to suppress error messages such as

find / -name file find: cannot read dir /lost+found: Permission denied /dir/file

as these messages are written to errout and not stdout, a nice trick is to pipe errout to null

find / -name file 2> /dev/null /dir/file

EXAMPLE : find /var/log/ -name "20*-*-*_*.log*" -mtime +80 -exec rm {} \; deletes all files older than 80 days