Finding files with find

find is the Swiss Army Knife tool for quickly finding files from the command line, but its syntax is somewhat unusual. Here are some quick examples:

•  list all files with ls that were modified within the last 15 days:

   find ./ -type f -mtime -15 | xargs ls -l  

•  list all files whose name contains "test":

   find ./ -type f -name "*test"   

•  grep for OUR in all files modified within the last 15 days

   find ./ -type f -mtime -15|xargs grep OUR