find.md

Find and replace

# Portable
find . -name pom.xml -exec perl -pi -w -e 's/foo/bar/g' {} \;

find /path/to/files -type f -exec sed -i 's/oldstring/new string/g' {} \;

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15402770/how-to-grep-and-replace

List files only

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f

From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10574794/bash-how-to-list-only-files.

Find and exec

find . -name "test_*.py" -exec {} \;

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7719785/using-find-with-exec-is-there-a-way-to-count-the-total

Find and suppress permission denied errors

find . ! -readable -prune

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/762348/how-can-i-exclude-all-permission-denied-messages-from-find

Find but exclude directories

find . -not -path "./dir/to/exclude/*"
find . -path ./dir/to/exclude -prune -o -print
find \( -name "*.ml" -o -name "*.mli" \) -not -path "./_build/*" -not -path "./log/*"

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4210042/exclude-directory-from-find-command