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advanced/complex uses of the find command

Perhaps the number one advanced find question is:

How to stop find from descending into subdirectories?
find command
Performing a non-recursive find in Unix
Use -prune with find command on AIX
Searching for files over 30 days old in current directory
disk space used for files with in a directory structure.
Question: non-recursive find syntax

Another important concept is using find in conjunction with xargs when dealing with a large number of files.
Too many files to list / remove
grep command-HELP?!
+ instead of ;

For more precise control over files found via a timestamp, use find in conjuction with touch as mentioned in:
files between any two given dates
no [find -mmin -1]
find command using -mmin param
a find script

And I thought that I'd link in other cool examples involving find...

The trouble with FIND .......
Cp All But Some Files, paramater for cp command?
/ is full

Finally, from the USENET Unix FAQS, see: Why doesn't find's "{}" symbol do what I want?

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udm_find

UDM_FIND(3)								 1							       UDM_FIND(3)

udm_find - Perform search

SYNOPSIS

       resource udm_find (resource  $agent, string  $query)

DESCRIPTION

	Performs a search.

	The search itself. The first argument - session, the next one - query itself. To find something just type words you want to find and press
       SUBMIT button. For example, "mysql odbc". You should not use quotes " in query, they are written here only to divide  a	query  from  other
       text.  mnoGoSearch  will find all documents that contain word "mysql" and/or word "odbc". Best documents having bigger weights will be dis-
       played first. If you use search mode ALL, search will return documents that contain both (or more) words you entered. In case you use  mode
       ANY,  the  search  will	return	list of documents that contain any of the words you entered. If you want more advanced results you may use
       query language. You should select "bool" match mode in the search from.

PARAMETERS

	      o $agent
		- A link to Agent, received after call to udm_alloc_agent(3).

	      o $query
		- mnoGoSearch understands the following boolean operators:  & - logical AND. For example, "mysql & odbc".  mnoGoSearch	will  find
		any  URLs  that  contain  both "mysql" and "odbc".  | - logical OR. For example "mysql|odbc". mnoGoSearch will find any URLs, that
		contain word "mysql" or word "odbc".  ~ - logical NOT. For example "mysql & ~odbc". mnoGoSearch will find URLs that  contain  word
		"mysql"  and  do  not  contain word "odbc" at the same time. Note that ~ just excludes given word from results. Query "~odbc" will
		find nothing!  () - group command to compose more complex queries. For example "(mysql | msql) &  ~postgres".  Query  language	is
		simple and powerful at the same time. Just consider query as usual boolean expression.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns a result link identifier on success or FALSE on failure.

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