Andrew Potts: FreeBSD find files commands

Wednesday 4 January 2023

Recursively find files in folder

find .//. ! -name . -print | grep -c //

Count of directories

find . -type d | wc -l

Count of directories (depth 1)

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l

Count of files (depth 1)

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | wc -l

Delete files that are called Zone.Identifier

find . -name "*:Zone.Identifier" -type f -delete

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