Find files edited within the last 10 minutes, good for when you install something or update something to see what changed.

find / -mmin -10

Find files last modified older than 2 years ago. Good for cleaning out old files.

find / -mtime +730 -print

Find files modified more than 2 years ago and delete them.  Good for cleaning your system.

find / -mtime +730 -exec rm -fr {} \;

Find files larger than 50MB, useful for cleaning up HD space.

find / -type f -size +50000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

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