find / -name file1 -print
find / -name '*junk*' -print
find / -name \*.o -print
find / -mtime -6 -print < 6 days ago
find / -atime +30 -print > 30 days ago
find / -mtime 7 -print exactly 7 days ago
You are probably more interested in this flavor....
Code:
find . -type f -atime +30 -print
finds files with an access time of greater than 30 days - excludes directories
find / -atime +5 \(-name "*.o" -o -name "*.tmp" \) -print
finds all files with an access time of greater than 5 days that have extension .o or .tmp
The find command is really powerful as you can search for files modifed down to an exact (well almost) time using a reference file
touch -t 03201600 /tmp/datefile
creates a file with timestamp of March 20, 4:00
find . -newer /tmp/datefile -print
find files newer than timestamp of datefile - granular to within one minute
09-27-2004