Quick usage examples of "find" on the command line

Search recursively for file names using a regex pattern. Use -name for a case-sensitive search.

find . -iname '*<partial_name>*'

To exclude results located in certain paths, use -not -path:

find . -iname '*<partial_name>*' -not -path "*/.venv/*" 

Execute a command with every result found.

find . -iname '*.md' -type f -exec ls -lh {} \;

List all files in the current folder (recursively) that contain every string mentioned in the search parameters. You can chain as many search terms as you want. Just remember that the last grep must use -l instead of -q.

find . -type f -exec grep -q '<string1>' {} \; -exec grep -q '<string2>' {} \; -exec grep -l '<string3>' {} \;

Note: every command needs to be terminated by ; or +. But these signs may need to be escaped as in ; or \;. The output from find will be placed in {}. Multiple uses of -exec are allowed.