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# find

Recursively find all files in current directory and chmod them to 644

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

Recursively find all directories in current directory and chmod them to 755

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

Recursively find all files in current directory modified in last minute

find . -type f -mmin -1

Recursively find all files in current directory accessed in the last 5 days and display the time accessed

find . -type f -atime -5 -exec ls -ltu {} \;

Recursively find the last 10 modified files in the current directory and display the time modified

Linux

find . -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -n | tail -10

The command will return an elongated UNIX timestamp for each file. You can see the human readable time the file was last modified by running the following command:

date -r "<ABSOLUTE PATH OF FILE>"

BSD and OS X

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -f "%m %N" | sort -rn | head -10

The command will return a UNIX timestamp for each file. It can be converted to human readable time by using the following command:

date -r <UNIXTIMESTAMP>

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