Cli

One very useful command for locating files and performing operations on them is find with the -exec option.

find [path] [arguments] -exec [command] {} \;

The part that’s tricky to remember is the escaped semicolon at the end.

Per-file vs batch mode

The \; terminator runs the command once per file found:

find . -name "*.log" -exec rm {} \;
# Equivalent to: rm file1.log; rm file2.log; rm file3.log

The + terminator batches files into fewer command invocations, which is faster: