Search for files modified the last ... days
Searches for files modified up to 4 days ago. Change the 4 to whatever you desire.
find ./ -type f -mtime -4 -exec ls -al {} \;
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Find files with a certain extension, where the files contain a certain search term
Searches the current directory and deeper for files ending with the 'php' extension, where the file itself contains 'search_term'. Useful if you're searching a large website with lots of images and you only want to find a certain function or variable.
find ./ -type f -name \*.php -exec grep -il "search_term" {} \;
Find files with certain extensions
Searches the current directory and deeper for several extensions. In this example both files mathing 'php', 'html' and 'tpl' match the search.
As an alternative you could also use:
find ./ -regex ".*\(php\|html\|tpl\)$"
As an alternative you could also use:
find ./ -iname "*.php" -or -iname "*.tpl" -or -iname "*.html"
Find files with a certain extension
Searches the current directory and deeper for all files having an extension 'php'. Change this to the extension you're looking for.
find ./ -type f -name \*.php
