My Favorite ‘find’ Command Uses

russds — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:17:59 +0000

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 }'

How Do I Add A User To A Group Using the Command Line?

russds — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:01:53 +0000

After some research this is what I found:

dscl . -append /Groups/group-name GroupMembership user-name