Find

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Tips

If you want to suppress error messages such as

find / -name file 
find: cannot read dir /lost+found: Permission denied
/dir/file

as these messages are written to errout and not stdout, a nice trick is to pipe errout to null

find / -name file 2> /dev/null
/dir/file

EXAMPLE : find /var/log/ -name "20*-*-*_*.log*" -mtime +80 -exec rm {} \;
          deletes all files older than 80 days