Autarchy of the Private Cave

If you ever need to select lots (hundreds, thousands) of files by their modification date, and your directory contains many more files (thousands, tens of thousands), then angel_il has the answer for you:

1. touch -d “Jun 01 00:00 2011″ /tmp/.date1
2. enter into your BIG dir
3. press C-x ! (External panelize)
4. add new command like a “find . -type f \( -newer /tmp/.date1 \) -print”

I’ve used a slightly different approach, specifying desired date right in the command line of External Panelize:

1. enter your directory with many files
2. press C-x ! (External Panelize)
3. add a command like find . -type f -newermt "2017-02-01 23:55:00" -print (man find for more details)

In both cases, the created panel will only have files matching your search condition.

Found here.

Recursively set directories only to drwx-rx-rx (755):

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Recursively set files only to rwx-r-r (644):

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Recursively remove carriage returns (^M) from the end of all *.php files:

find . -type f -name “*.php” -exec /home/user/dos2unix.sh {} \;

In all these cases, {} is replaced with the filename/directory find has found matching your parameters; \; at the end just stops exec processing.